Tag: Civil rights movement
Diane Oliver’s Short Stories “Neighbors”: Sensational find. – Culture
Diane Oliver talked about the everyday lives of black women in the midst of the civil rights movement in the USA. She died in 1966 at the age of 22.…
Novel “The Trees” by Percival Everett – Culture
In the age of stand-up specials, memes and HBO series, making you gasp with laughter is certainly not part of a novel’s job. But that’s how it was in the…
Xu Zhiyong and the Revenge of the Chinese Dictatorship – Politics
From Leah Sahay If you type in the name Xu Zhiyong on the Chinese Internet, you won’t find much. Some old reports from 2014, about a previous arrest of the…
“Susanna”, Alex Capus’ novel about Caroline Weldon. Review. – Culture
What a kid. Susanna Faesch is five when she wants to take a closer look at the “wild man”, the protagonist of a Basel guild custom. The huge masked coachman…
Oscar Academy apologizes to Dingeen Littlefeather – Opinion
Almost fifty years ago, Sacheen Littlefeather turned down an Oscar at the Academy Awards in protest at the treatment of Native Americans. There is now an apology for what happened…
Obituary for Nichelle Nichols: A Strong and Educated Woman – Culture
Nichelle Nichols was a singer, actress, dancer and an icon of the black civil rights movement in the United States. Most importantly, she was Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek.…
Nyota Uhura from “Star Trek”: Nichelle Nichols is dead. – Culture
Nichelle Nichols was a singer, actress, dancer and an icon of the black civil rights movement in the United States. Most importantly, she was Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek.…
Poet Maya Angelou becomes first black on US quarter coin – culture
The image of the poet, fighter in the civil rights movement and bestselling author, adorns the new American “Quarters”. In everyday life they are only called “quarters”, the quarter-dollar coins…
William Melvin Kelley’s “A Drop of Patience”. Review. – Culture
from Andrian Kreye American English was the liveliest language of modern times long before Bavarian schoolchildren insulted educational measures as an “alman move” or before words from the African languages…
Malcolm X: Alleged murderers are supposed to be innocent – Panorama
History, said the French historian Pierre Gaxotte, has to be written with a pencil. “It’s easier to erase.” In this sense, one should imagine the reconstruction of the assassination attempt…