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Par anglais03 le 1 Mai 2014 à 17:45
BBC NEWS : How 'Black Fives' led to racial integration in basketball (video)
"The term Black Fives refers to all-black basketball teams that thrived in the United States between 1904, when basketball was first introduced to African Americans on a large scale organized basis, and 1950, when the National Basketball Association became racially integrated. The period is known as the "Black Fives Era" or "Early Black Basketball" or simply "Black Basketball".
Early basketball teams were often called "fives” in reference to the five starting players. All-black teams were known as colored quints, colored fives, Negro fives, or black fives.
Dozens of all-black teams emerged during the Black Fives Era, in New York City, Washington, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and other cities. They were sponsored by or affiliated with churches, athletic clubs, social clubs, businesses, newspapers, YMCA branches, and other organizations.
The terms "Black Fives" and "Black Fives Era" are trademarked phrases owned by Black Fives, Inc., whose founder and owner, Claude Johnson, coined the terms while researching and promoting the period's history." Source: Wikipedia
Current exhibit at the New York Historical society
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Par anglais03 le 30 Avril 2014 à 09:26
LA Clippers owner race row ban welcomed
LA Clippers coach's relief at owner's ban
Sterling's views have 'no place in the NBA'
(See previous articles on this blog)
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Par anglais03 le 29 Avril 2014 à 10:06
TIME : D Day for Donald Sterling
A VOA Summary of the incident (video)
The Huffington Post
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Par anglais03 le 28 Avril 2014 à 17:55
BBC NEWS :Los Angeles Clippers in silent protest over racist remarks by their owner Donald Sterling
ON ABC5 :
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The Clippers players protested against their owner, Donald Sterling, before their playoff game
on Sunday night by ditching their team jackets and putting on logo-less red warmup shirts.
Photo: AP, Getty Images
"President Barack Obama's comment : President Obama, speaking at a news conference in Malaysia, called Sterling’s remarks “incredibly offensive.” “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk,” Obama added.
Another reaction on CNN
"Plantation mentality thrives in L.A. Clippers owner's suite"
By Paula Madison
April 28, 2014
Paula Madison's reaction(video)
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VOA NEWS Summary of incident and reactions(video)
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Another illustration of what some players are confronted with:
Dani Alves eats banana thrown at him.
After the match, the 30-year-old Alves posted a clip of the incident on Instagram, joking his father had always told him to eat bananas to prevent cramp.
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1968 Olympics Black Power salute: "Another silent protest"
Source : Wikipedia
A film was made : SALUTE
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Link to other articles I posted some time ago (racism in sport)
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this theme of racism and sport may also remind us of Invictus
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Par anglais03 le 20 Avril 2014 à 15:25
The "grand" American tradition of violent white supremacy
An indignant Amy Goodman reads her column.
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Videos
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Par anglais03 le 19 Avril 2014 à 21:11
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/18/304194508/six-words-segregation-should-not-determine-our-future:
THE ATLANTIC
RESESEGREGATION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (full article)
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back.
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Par anglais03 le 12 Avril 2014 à 21:46
President Lyndon Johnson / Civil Rights and The Power of Education
38 years before becoming President, LBJ worked as a teacher in a poor Mexican community in Texas
He never forgot them...
NPR : LBJ Carried Poor Texas Town With Him In Civil Rights Fight
Long before he was president, Lyndon Johnson taught in Cotulla, Texas. He is pictured here with students in 1928. Courtesy of LBJ Library
Lyndon Johnson Speaks In Cotulla In 1966
Audio courtesy of LBJ Presidential Library
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Par anglais03 le 12 Avril 2014 à 21:40
A Painful Chapter In Our History
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray tells the story of the disappearance and murder of the these three civil rights workers as well as the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign they were a part of. It's a book that reminds everyone who reads it that the passage of the Civil Rights Act was only a beginning. A must read.
BOOK COVER
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Par anglais03 le 29 Mars 2014 à 17:09
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2013/11/20131120287205.html#axzz2mgWMhsgz
Race forward : A new generation Celebrates Black History
PDF
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Par anglais03 le 13 Mars 2014 à 23:30
1962 : the action takes place in Baltimore where Friday is "negro day" on dance floors...
excerpt 1: "Run and tell that!"
Excerpt2 : "I know where I've been"
(The main character on the right takes part in a demonstration against segregation and loses her chances of ever dancing in a TV show!)
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Par anglais03 le 10 Mars 2014 à 22:17
On NPR : 'Americanah' Author Explains ’Learning’ To Be Black In The U. S
Adichie is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and author of the novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of A Yellow Sun. Her novel Americanah explores this question of what it means to be black in the U.S., and tells the story of a young Nigerian couple, one of whom leaves for England and the other of whom leaves for America.
The title, she says, is a Nigerian word for those who have been to the U.S. and return with American affectations.
"It's often used," she says, "in the context of a kind of gentle mockery."
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Par anglais03 le 10 Mars 2014 à 20:33
ON NPR
Stokely Carmichael, A Philosopher Behind The Black Power Movement
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