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The Aragón Negro Festival, colloquially known as Aragón Negro, is a literary festival that was started in 2014 by writer and journalist Juan Bolea and is celebrated throughout the Aragón, Spain. It is sponsored by the Caja Rural de Aragón Foundation, Cafés Orús, and the Zaragoza City Council, in addition to various private sponsors. [ 1 ]
The Festival de Género Negro de Valencia, known as Valencia Negra or VLC Negra, is an annual literary festival in Valencia, Spain.It is one of several festivals in the first week of May, which are known as "Semana Negra," or "black weeks," due to their celebration of thematically "dark" genres like crime fiction and detective stories.
African-American filmmaker Spike Lee coined the term, deriding the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro" in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University and at Yale University. [1] [2] The Magical Negro is a subset of the more generic numinous Negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser in the National Review. [3]
An advertisement about Black Awareness Day in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. A march during Consciência Negra day, São Paulo, 2008.. In Brazil, Black Consciousness Day (Portuguese: Dia da Consciência Negra) is observed annually on November 20 as a day to recognize Afro-Brazilians and their struggle to achieve racial equality.
Negro denotes 'black' in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the Latin word niger, meaning 'black', which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, "to be dark", akin to *nokw-, 'night'. [4] [5] Negro was also used for the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River.
"The End" is a response to the Argentine epic Martín Fierro, which Borges had discussed in a long essay published earlier that year. [1] In the story, a man who presumably has had a crippling stroke winds up half seeing and half hearing a definitive fight between a "negro" guitarist who has been dwelling in the man's store and a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Martin Fierro, whom the ...
Crazy Weekend (Spanish: Loco fin de semana) is a 2019 Mexican comedy film written and directed by Kristoff Raczyñski. [1] The film premiered on 14 June 2019 in Mexico, [ 1 ] and it stars Christian Vázquez .
The Movimento Negro Unificado Contra a Discriminação Racial (MNU) was founded in 1978. It emerged as part of a public protest on July 7, 1978 against the torture of Robson Silveira da Luz at the Guaianases police headquarters in São Paulo; the discrimination of four Afro-Brazilian athletes at the Tietê Regatta Club, and the police killing ...