![]() ![]() The result was Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, a book that Hurston completed in the early 1930s but that remained unpublished until 2018. ![]() In 1927 and ’28, Zora Neale Hurston, icon of the Harlem Renaissance, visited Kossola toward the end of his life to record a series of interviews. Among them was a man named Kossola, who became the last surviving member of the group. It carried in its hull the last known group of slaves to be brought to the United States. In 1860, more than fifty years after the transatlantic slave trade became illegal, a schooner named Clotilda docked on the Alabama shores. ![]()
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SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This WeekĬelebrate Bernstein, Latin Jazz, Shakespeare & More Live Performances This WeekendĢ6 Reasons To Get Out & Explore This Weekend What’s with all the ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ productions?Īfrican-American Shakespeare’s Caribbean take on ‘Midsummer’ View more photos and download high resolution image files on our Press page.īy Richard Connema, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle memberīy Gaetana Caldwell-Smith, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle memberĪfrican-American Shakes is having a late summer Midsummer Carnival Running time: 2 hours including a 15 minute intermission ![]() ![]() This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Child, children's book, fable by llpitlwp. “ A Tree for Max” is a book which continues to grow along with a child as he/she journeys through life and will bear fruit all along the way.ĭisclosure: I personally know Jerry Halberstadt and was given a copy of “ A Tree for Max“, my review was unsolicited and my opinions are as always my own. 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GESSEN: Well, actually, I think that causing unrest and consternation is an end in itself. But what about the misinformation campaign that we keep discovering more about, hacking, what seems to be just a lot of Russian involvement on a lot of different fronts? Why - what is the Russian interest in causing unrest or consternation in the United States or Western Europe? ![]() But, you know, if you are going to - I wouldn't draw the conclusion from it that we know something about collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign. GESSEN: Is he trying to cause unrest in the U.S.? Yes. Is Russia and Vladimir Putin trying to cause unrest in the U.S.? SIMON: Let me begin with a question this blunt. Her book is "The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia." Masha Gessen joins us from our studios in New York. Masha Gessen, who is the daughter of Soviet dissidents, one of the founders of the Pink Triangle Campaign in Russia and a respected writer on Russia who now lives in New York, has written a book about what she calls the story of freedom that was not embraced in democracy, that was not desired. How many Americans - Democrats and Republicans - would disagree with that now? ![]() Mitt Romney received a lot of ridicule during the 2012 presidential campaign when he said Russia was the No. ![]() |