Sunday 10 March 2019

199th birthday of Harriet Tubman

(Born c1820, Dorchester county, Maryland, US; dies 10 March 1913, Auburn, New York, US)
ACTIVIST exponent of African American freedom who works intensely and expansively on the historic underground railroad/railway liberatory network and whose illustrative stretch of resilient freedom strategy is a rich legacy that the great Biafrans of our age have adapted and deployed variously in the course of the past 53 years
(Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe)
(Wynton Marsalis Quintet, “Harriet Tubman” [personnel: Marsalis, trumpet; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Marcus Roberts, piano; Bob Hurst, bass; Jeff “Tain” Watts, drums; recorded: BMG Studios, New York, US, {?} {?} 1991])

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is author of the recently published The longest genocide  since 29 May 1966 (2019)  (https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2019/01/published-longest-genocide-since-29-may.html)

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe






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