Category: W.E.B Du Bois
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A Prayer for Dark Folk
Remember, O God, thru’out the world this night those who struggle for better government and freer institutions…Help us to realize that our brothers are not simply those of our own blood and nation, but far more are they those who think as we do and strive toward the same ideals. So tonight in Persia and…
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The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy) – Effie Lee Newsome
‘Tis a noble gift to be brown all brown Like the strongest things Up this earth, Like the mountains grave and grand, Even like the very land, Even like the trunks of trees – Even oaks, to be like these! God builds his strength in bronze. To be brown like thrush and lark! Like the…
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Poem: The Rosenbergs, June 1953 – W.E.B Du Bois
From floods of wrath, avenging God, Pour down the curse on us the murderers, who crucify the Jews! Hammer home the nails, thick through our skulls; Crush down the thorns; Rain red the bloody sweat, Thick and heavy, warm and wet. We are the killers, hurling mud! We the witch hunters, drinking blood! To us…
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The Knowledge of the Persecuting Majority
In truth, the knowledge which a persecuted minority has of the other is seldom truth. They see each other through the eyes and hear each other through the ears of the persecuting majority. —W.E.B Du Bois
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The Gift of India and the Violence of the West: Some Reflections
Can ye measure the grief of the tears I weep Or compass the woe of the watch I keep? Or the pride that thrills thro’ my heart’s despair And the hope that comforts the anguish of prayer? And the far sad glorious vision I see Of the torn red banners of victory? when the terror…
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Love Songs for the Prince Of Peace
I. Prelude: the Search Your smile is warming and knowing; It traps me like magnolias writhing against a garden gate. You lure me, in your promise of love lingering, the greatness of love. For you, the marshland sings with frogs, Turning a sharp green at the last wane of dusk, all quietly beckoning the truth…
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Love Songs for the Prince Of Peace
I. Prelude: the Search Your smile is warming and knowing; It traps me like magnolias writhing against a garden gate. You lure me, in your promise of love lingering, the greatness of love. For you, the marshland sings with frogs, Turning a sharp green at the last wane of dusk, all quietly beckoning the truth…
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Dr. Du Bois
Ancient statues of Indian divinities show the Negro type with black face and close-curled hair, and early Babylonian culture was Negroid.
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Usury
Quran 2:275] Those who charge usury are in the same position as those controlled by the devil’s influence. This is because they claim that usury is the same as commerce. However, God permits commerce, and prohibits usury. Thus, whoever heeds this commandment from his Lord, and refrains from usury, he may keep his past earnings,…