GetWrite45Mozart Composer, swordsman, polymath: Why Joseph Boulogne should never be called the ‘Black Mozart’ independent.co.uk - Marcos Balter Last month, Searchlight Pictures announced plans for a movie about Joseph Boulogne, the 18th-century composer also known as Chevalier de …
GetWrite45Africa Africa’s medieval golden age historyextra.com - Mark Gover During the Middle Ages, while Europe fought, traded, explored and evolved, Africa was a continent in darkness, 'without history' – or so the …
GetWrite45 How France extorted Haiti for one of the greatest heists in geopolitical history Quartz - Marlene Daut, University of VirginiaIn the wake of George Floyd’s killing, there have been calls for defunding police departments and demands for the removal of statues. The issue of reparations for slavery has also resurfaced. Much of reparations
GetWrite45Israel's elite Mossad unit set up a luxury diving resort in the 1980s as a front to smuggle Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan. Insider - Sophia Ankel In the early 1980s, members of Israel's elite intelligence agency — known as Mossad — were tasked with smuggling thousands of Jewish refugees from …
GetWrite45 Don't pit slavery descendants against black immigrants. Racism doesn't know the difference. USA TODAY - Kevin CokleyAn anti-African, anti-black-immigrant stance is shortsighted. As we celebrate Black History Month, we should not divide the black community. Should African American/black identity be defined by descendants
