Not exact matches
De Abreu, 27, the co-founder of StopBlackFace.com, was describing a protest in Rotterdam last November, in which she was
among roughly 200
activists arrested while protesting the controversial
Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curly
Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted
black face and curly
black face and curly wig.
A recent study that ranks Syracuse number one in the country for concentrated poverty
among blacks and Latinos has ignited
activists, who want city government to do something about creating jobs for residents who live in poverty.
The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel,
among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is
among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community
activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's
Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.