Indeed, many of the strategies that brought about the collapse of apartheid – the isolation of South Africa in the UN, boycotts, divestment, and media attention focused on the brutality of white supremacy – were designed by a transnational team of activists in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

One of the first sustained skirmishes occurred when South Africa, swimming against the tide of colonial and racial history, attempted in 1946 to annex the adjacent international mandate of South West Africa (current-day Namibia). Pretoria was confident of UN approval for such an unprecedented move. Yet, into the breach -and into the United Nations – stepped an unlikely duo, the Reverend Michael Scott and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to stop the absorption of 350,000 Africans into a white supremacist state.

This seemingly odd couple, a maverick, communist-leaning Anglican minister and a staid, staunchly anti-communist bureaucratic organization, launched a skillful assault in the UN by linking the destructiveness of colonialism with white supremacist domestic rule. Within the span of five hard-fought years, the NAACP and Scott, wielding one human rights charter after the next, had carved out the political space in the UN for non-governmental organizations to debunk the myth of the white man’s burden and to challenge the legitimacy of apartheid.

In her talk, Professor Anderson will explore the intersection of domestic and international history, recapturing the vision and the actions of the black political center in the anti-colonial and global freedom movements.

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Keynote Speaker: Noah Sow

The Black German Cultural Society, Inc. (BGCS), is excited to announce its 1st Annual Convention to be held from August 19 to 21, 2011, at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC.

With the theme of “Strengthening Transatlantic Connections,” the convention will host guests and presenters from our international community in Germany and the United States.

Our keynote speaker will be Noah Sow, the acclaimed journalist, musician, producer and author of “Germany Black & White” (2008), who will speak about “Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experience in Germany and the US.”

For More information and to register, please visit our Convention Website!

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James W.C. Pennington

PRESS RELEASE: “Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) are proud to announce the creation of a new fellowship honoring James W.C. Pennington, an African American churchman, abolitionist, and pacifist who holds a special place in the history of our university.

Born into slavery in Maryland, Pennington escaped bondage at the age of eighteen. He learned to read and write, and in 1834, became the first black man to attend classes at Yale. Four years later, Pennington was ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church. His devotion to black freedom and nonviolence made Pennington a cherished member of the international peace and abolitionist movements.

At the 1849 World Peace Congress in Paris, Pennington befriended the Heidelberg theologian Friedrich Carové. Impressed with Pennington’s courage and eloquence, Carové persuaded Heidelberg University to confer an honorary doctorate of divinity on the black minister. It was the first time that an African American received this greatest of all academic honors from a European university.

On the occasion of its six-hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary, Heidelberg University wishes to pay tribute to James W.C. Pennington’s extraordinary life, thereby strengthening the ties that bind Germany’s oldest university to the United States and the international academic community.”

For more information on the fellowship and the current call for donations, please see the attached file or visit: http://hca.uni-hd.de/md/hca/pennington.pdf

For the HCA itself, see: http://hca.uni-hd.de/index_en.html

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„Heimat, Bittersüße Heimat“ zeigt schon im Titel die Ambivalenz des Lebens als Schwarzer Deutscher. Auch im beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert sind Deutsche mit nicht-stereotypem Erscheinungsbild täglich mit scheinbar nett gemeinten Fragen und Bemerkungen konfrontiert, die nichts anderes sind als alte Vorurteile in neuer Verpackung. Diesem ganz besonderen Gefühl, Schwarz und zugleich Deutsch zu sein, begegnet Label Noir mit ihrem aktuellen Stück.

Klischee-Rollen

Das 7-köpfige Ensemble gründete sich im Jahre 2007 mit der Absicht, Schwarze Schauspieler auf die deutschen Bühnen zu bringen und ihnen ganz alltägliche Rollen zu verschaffen. Die Mitglieder, allesamt professionelle Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler mit langjähriger Erfahrung, bekommen sonst meist nur Klischee-Rollen. Lara Sophie Milagro, künstlerische Leiterin des Ensembles: „Allgemeiner gesprochen möchten wir die Vorstellungen davon, was deutsch ist und deutsch sein kann, ändern und erweitern. Die kulturelle Identität ist nicht das äußere Erscheinungsbild eines Menschen.“

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Adetoun Kueppers Adebisi Black Woman Diaspora Activist

Black Diaspora Interviews Moderation Panels Concepts Project Management AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Black German Education. Media Art & Culture Archive – Black Media Watch since 2001 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads DATA BANK Education www.AFROTAK.com AFROTAK TV cyberNomads TV FILM KANAL Media http://www.youtube.com/user/AFROTAKTVcyberNomads AFROTAK TV cyberNomads News Culture www.twitter.com/AFROTAKTVcbN Best Media AWARDS & HONORS * 2009 RESPECT Media Award/ Senate of Berlin * 2008 Best Media Projekt/ Foundation Democracy & Tolerance of the German Government BERLIN * 2006 Named among the 50 Most Important African Diaspora Germany Projects/ African Heritage Magazin HAMBURG * 2005 Named as Worthy Project Germany / Human Rights Report Europe * 2005 Best German Media Project/ African Youth Foundation BONN * 2005 Honorable Mentioning/ Peace Award BREMEN * 2004 Elected as Project for the Memory of the Slave Trade/ UNESCO Chapter Germany BONN * 2002 Finalist Social Business Project/ Bertelsmann Foundation BERLIN KONTAKT/Booking: AFROTAK TV cyberNomads Frau Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) E-MAIL: afrotak@cyberNomads.de Telephone +49-30-44043257 Mobile +49 (0) 163 — 258 38 93 Eberswalder Strasse 4 D- 10437 Berlin Diaspora – Panels – Moderation Project Management Publications Black History Month Berlin African Union African Diaspora Landesaktionsplan gegen Rassismus und ethnische Diskriminierung. CEO AFROTAK TV cyberNomads. Consulting for Culture Network House der Kulturen der Welt. May Ayim Award. Black Media Congress.

Art Literature Film Kultur Kritik:  Michael Kueppers Adebisi

A Collection of Art Works, Black Literature, Black Films, MultiMedia, Curatorial Works and Cultural Criticism BY MICHAEL KUEPPERS-ADEBISI Ein Auszug aus dem künstlerischem Werk, Schwarzer Literatur, Schwarzen Filmen, MULTI MEDIA, Arbeiten als Kurator und Kultur Kritik VON MICHAEL KUEPPERS-ADEBISI

In 2001 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads promoted the digital architecture for an educational online databank to the Office for Civic Education of the German Government (BPB). We called it the Mothership Databank in reference to Sun Ra..s Mothership Connection.

The portal premiered in 2002. We realized three major Media Conferences with local, national and international Black and African media. We collected speakers from academia, business, media and art and network them in Berlin. We develop an alliance of Europe-based African Publishers to market and
promote the image of the African continent and black Europe. The Media Network establishes over 4000 registered on- and offline contacts that lobby with the mainstream of Germany and Europe.

The Black German Yello Pages constitute a first structural overview on the African scene in Germany as well as its links within Europe. We pitch our concepts to institutional cooperation partners and sponsors and stage our events at their locations (Goethe Institute Berlin, Heinrich Boell Foundation, and House of the Cultures of the World).

We organized press conferences with Thomas Krueger – the head of the Office for Civic Education of the German Government to dispel media perceptions about Africa through effective communication strategies interfacing with the media.

We developed the MAY AYIM AWARD – a Pan-African International Black German Literature Award under umbrella ship of the German section of UNESCO and Published the Book May Ayim Award with Orlanda Publishing House. Our publication The “Black Book” revisits the footnotes and documents

German history to promote access and understanding of Africa..s history and Africa..s history in Germany and Europe. We offer our expertise to universities, companies and NGO..s teaching Change Management in workshops on Content Management as well as on Migration, Integration, cyberspace and the workforce. We access an offline-audience traditionally excluded from the German cultural and educational mainstream network and media-channels accumulating over 8 million visitors since 2001.

We do target group consulting for public TV (MDR, ZDF, N24), we are present on PublicRadio (Deutschlandfunk, Radio Multikulti, Deutsche Welle) and in print (Zitty, The African Courier, African Heritage, LoNam).

On invitation of the South African Embassy AFROTAK TV cyberNomads in September 07 represented Germany at the African Union -
Diaspora in Europe Regional Consultative Conference in Paris.

Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi is Board Member of the African Diaspora Committee Germany on accord of the African Union since 08. In 2009/ 2010 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads coordinated the workshops for the inclusion of Media&Culture NGO´s input into the Berlin State legislation proposals against racism and ethnic discrimination.

In 2009 and 2010 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads also participated in the coordination of Black History Month Berlin organizing and moderating Panels on Black German Cultural Identity, The Future Perspectives of Schwarz in Deutschland, Structural Racism in Academia and Sport or on Black Academia in a White context.

In 2010 the Essay by AFROTAK TV cyberNomads´ Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi “Negritude – Black Global Liberation Struggles of the 20th and 21st century” including the perspective of the Black German Diaspora was published in the anthology “Rassismus auf gut Deutsch”(Racism in good German).

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads @ www.afrotak.com continues the Black Media Perspective in a White German context. Our video channel AFROTAK TV showcases the culture and Media around the Black Atlantic with a specific focus on Germany.

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads are constantly looking for new partners and cooperations as well as for supporters and sponsors for innovative Black Community Projects.

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads assist you in marketing your conscious events and projects from within the Black Community into the community as well as into the Mainstream.

SINCE 1989 we have collected a body of more than 2000 videos covering the Black Presence in Germany documenting what otherwise would be lost …

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By Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke

“Maria Höhn’s and Martin Klimke’s carefully researched and lucid Breath of Freedom stands for a paradigm shift in our reading of the civil rights movement and deserves to become a classic in the field; not only does it invite the movement’s relocation in a transnational context; it also succeeds in illustrating the innovative potential of this global perspective by its in-depth case study of the specific intersectionality of post World War II Germany and African America.”

Maria Diedrich, University of Münster
Founder and former president of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
Author of Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass

This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Because of the American military occupation after World War II, America’s unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to world-wide scrutiny as never before. America’s ambitious efforts to democratize German society after the defeat of Nazism also meant that West Germany was exposed to American ideas of freedom and democracy to a much larger degree than many other countries. READ MORE…

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