Legends, Poetry, The Culture

Thank You Toni

August 6, 2019 by blackstate No Comments
We’ve lost Toni Morrison but still Toni Morrison joins the best of us. They can go by a single name....
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Editor's choice, Legends

The Souls of Black Folk Revisited

June 8, 2017 by blackstate No Comments
W.E.B. Dubois published the classic work The Sould of Black Folk in 1903. The work in its analysis of race...
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African Diaspora, Legends

Stephen Biko – I Write What I Like

August 3, 2016 by blackstate No Comments
BLACK SOULS IN WHITE SKINS? Basically the South African white community is a homogeneous community. It is a community of...
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Legends

James Baldwin – Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes

August 3, 2016 by blackstate No Comments
I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED, AND IT IS NOT A PLEASANT wonder, just what white Americans talk about with one another....
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Legends

Maya Angelou – Still I Rise and Africa

May 28, 2014 by blackstate No Comments
In honor of the life and works of the great Maya Angelou two of our favorite poems: Still I Rise...
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African Diaspora, Legends

Nelson Mandela Rivonia Trial Speech

December 30, 2013 by blackstate No Comments
I am the First Accused. I hold a Bachelor`s Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for...
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Black History, Legends

Woodson: Now More Than Ever

August 3, 2009 by blackstate No Comments
Carter G. Woodson–Pioneer of Black History In celebration of Black History Month BlackState.com honor’s Carter G. Woodson- The Father Of...
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Legends

Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God

August 12, 2002 by blackstate No Comments
Zora Neale Hurston–Still Watching God (Excerpts From One Of The Greatest Literary Writers Of All Time) Their Eyes Were Watching...
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Legends

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

August 8, 2001 by blackstate No Comments
Booker T. Washington “Up From Slavery” A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin...
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African Diaspora, Legends

I Speak of Freedom by Kwame Nkrumah

August 8, 2001 by blackstate No Comments
I Speak of Freedom by Kwame Nkrumah For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself...
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