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Simmi Dullay, The Motherland & What country are you from? (a movement has begun)

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Simmi Dullay Simmi Dullay is a scholar and a visual artist based  in London. She spent the last year as a visiting lecturer at various universities from Mauritius to Scandinavia. She lectured in Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology at the University of South Africa (Unisa). She is currently a doctoral candidate. Her academic background covers a variety of fields, ranging from Critical Theory, Art History & Visual Arts, Post colonialism, Gender, Race and Exile/Race studies. She obtained her MFA, (Cum Laude) from the Durban University of Technology, in 2010. She investigates exile using interdisciplinary methods based on visual methodologies, Black Consciousness, decolonial praxis, auto-ethnography and memory work. Her research draws productively on art, cultural and gender studies, critical philosophy and sociology. Dullay taught at the University of Kwa Zulu Natal in Education, Social Justice & Diversity as well as Philosophy & Sociology in Education. ...

Just Because We're Magic Doesn't Mean We're Not Real

The Emanuel 9, Allen Report and the importance of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Black Liberation

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It was a year ago on June 17th, 2015 when a lone gunman entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and murdered nine, including the church's senior pastor state senator Clementa C. Pickney.  21 year-old Dylan Roof was the gunman who stated that he had hoped to spark a race war. Roof knew what he was doing when he targeted the oldest African Methodist church in the South, which has always been a bastion of resistance for African Americans starting with Denmark Vesey who it is said, was responsible for planning a thwarted rebellion against whites in order to gain freedom for he and his people. The plan would have included a trip to the Republic of Haiti, if all had gone well. According to Wiki  Vesey and five slaves were among the first group of men rapidly judged guilty by the secret proceedings of a city-appointed Court and condemned to death; they were executed by hanging on July 2, 1822. Vesey was about age 55. In later p...