Leon Damas

Damas was also the first Black writer to address the impact of colonization on the psyche of the colonized.

Pan-African Profile: Léon Damas Co-Founder of Négritude Movement

[Léon Damas] Black Past: “In 1934, the three founded the journal L’Étudiant Noir, a platform for a pan-Africanist literary and cultural movement that Damas, ...

The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, would be founded on these ideas.

Pan-African Profile: Aimé Césaire Co-Founder of Negritude Movement

[Aimé Césaire\Negritude Movement] BlackPast: “The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization. The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, ...

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Documentary On Malcolm X’s European Trip before Assassination — To Screen at African Film Festival

Bethune shown with Howard Hughes in Tanzania. At the 24th New York African Film Festival, Lebert “Sandy” Bethune, Jamaican filmmaker, poet, author and scholar, ...

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TRIBUTE: REMEMBERING OUR BLESSED PRINCE, AMIRI BARAKA

Amiri Baraka. Photo: Carl Nunn for The Black Star News   REMEMBERING AMIRI BARAKA 1934- 2014   “Each night I go out to count ...