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AfriCOBRA was founded on the South Side of Chicago by a group of artists intent on defining a "black aesthetic." AfriCOBRA artists were associated with the Black Arts Movement in America, a movement that began in the mid-1960s and that celebrated culturally-specific expressions of the contemporary Black community in the realms of literature, theater, dance and the visual arts. [6]
Alpha 66 was founded by Cuban exiles in the early 1960s to act as an anti-Castro, paramilitary group. [2]Although it has undergone changes in personnel and leadership, it still exists today and is based out of Florida. [4]
Xenia Cage (born Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff, August 15, 1913, Juneau, Alaska – September 26, 1995, New York [citation needed]) was an American surrealist sculptor. [2] Her work has been described as on the “cutting edge of surrealism in sculpture” for her time.
Policemen in riot gear enter the San Francisco State campus in a show of force during student demonstrations that were meant to shut the college down during a strike December 4, 1968. - Jerry ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Cage's website was launched in October 2003. It was among the leading organisations which worked on publicising the names of the detainees at Guantanamo. [3] Due to the U.S. government's refusal to publish a list of names until a Freedom of Information lawsuit in 2006, [5] it published names, photos and other information about detainees obtained from detainees' families. [6]
This movement called for the equality of Latino people in America, and many Greek letter organizations were developed to create solidarity and political empowerment for the Latino community. [ 1 ] In New Jersey on December 1, 1975, Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Kean University in Union Township, New Jersey . [ 3 ]
As a member of the Mbuti people, [7] Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Congo Free State.His people were attacked by the Force Publique, established by King Leopold II of Belgium as a militia to oppress the local people and communities, most of whom were used as forced laborers in the extraction and exploitation of Congo's massive supply of rubber. [8]