Soon after The Public Archive launched in 2010, we began featuring reading lists that, for the most part, appeared under the banner “Radical Black Reading.” To mark nearly a decade’s worth of publication, we’ve culled a number of entries from the lists, focussing on work that in our view deserves more attention while offering some direction […]
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Seven interviews with Andrew Cyrille
[Andrew Cyrille: Brooklyn-born avante garde jazz drummer of Haitian descent.] A fireside chat with Andrew Cyrille, Jazz Weekly (date?) Body and Soul: An Interview with Andrew Cyrille, Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (2010). Interview with Andrew Cyrille, Intakt Records (2003). Andrew Cyrille: DownBeat interview: directors cut (2004). Andrew Cyrille: Art Science, Part 1, JazzTimes (2011). […]
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Also tagged archives, Haiti, history, interviews, jazz, music, pan-africanism
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Black Folk in Dark Times: Storified
[View the story “Black Folk in Dark Times: A Workshop on Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Freedom” on Storify]
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Also tagged africa, freedom, independence, pan-africanism, sovereignty
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Collectif Paroles: Revue culturelle et politique haïtienne
Collectif Paroles: Revue culturelle et politique haïtienne (Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1979-1987). A digital archive of almost all of Collectif Paroles’ back issues may be found at the website for le Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-canadienne (CIDIHCA).
Haiti: Présence Africaine Éditions, 25 bis, rue des écoles, Paris, France, June 24, 2010
Présence Africaine Éditions
Haiti: Robeson
Yes, and a French general named Le Clerc was also sent against Ho Chi Minh, but like the blacks of Haiti, the plantation workers of Indo-China have also proved unconquerable. Paul Robeson, “Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L’Ouverture of Indo-China,” Freedom (March 1954) Paul Robeson was keen to make a film, but wanted one which […]
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Also tagged African-Americans, CLR James, Haiti, history, pan-africanism, Robeson, Toussaint
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Haiti: Québec
Tahani Rached, Haïti (Québec), (National Film Board of Canada, 1985)
Haiti: Art Histories
Jean-Michel Basquiat wasn’t just interested in history—he wanted to breed with, butcher, and avenge it. Engaged in a ritualistic act of historical restitution, he crossed the black diaspora with pop culture, religion, and drugs. Jerry Saltz, “To Hell and Back,” The Village Voice (April 12, 2005) In third grade, Jean-Michel Basquiat sent a drawing of […]