#afro-german

[whoisthebestprince]

Florence Kasuma instantly fell in love with her when I saw Captian America: Civil War.

[allweknewisdead]

Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years (2012) - Dagmar Schultz

East Berlin

It feels dangerous now

to be Black in Berlin

sad suicides that never got reported

Neukölln Kreuzberg the neon Zoo

a new siege along Unter den Linden

with Paris accents New York hustle

many tattered visions intersecting.

Already my blood shrieks

through East Berlin streets

misplaced hatreds

volcanic tallies rung upon cement

Afro-German woman stomped to death

by skinheads in Alexanderplatz

two-year-old girls

half-cooked in their campcots

who pays the price

for their disillusion?

Hand-held the candles wink

in Berlin’s scant November light

hitting the Wall at 30 miles an hour

vision first

is still hitting a wall

and on the other side

the rank chasm

where dreams of laurels lie

hollowness wed to triumph

differing from defeat

only in the approaching tasks.

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Audre Lorde in conversation with afro-german activist Marion Kraft in Berlin 1986, photographed by Dagmar Schultz.

In the summer of 1986, Marion Kraft met the African-American author and activist Audre Lorde in Berlin for an interview about her novel Zami and her work as a whole. This encounter was affirming and empowering for Marion and her work and marked the beginning of a deep bond and friendship. Their last meeting took place in Berlin in 1992.

Translated from Marion Kraft's website.

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Elsa M’bala (AMET) - check her out!

[karmaalwayswins]

DW Documentary “Afro Germany - Being Black and Germany” (2017)

[connectingthediaspora]

Black and German: news anchor Jana Pareigis has spent her entire life being asked about her skin color and afro hair. What is it like to be Black in Germany? What needs to change? In our documentary "Afro Germany", Pareigis travels through Germany to speak with other black Germans, including rap and hip hop artists and pro footballers, , and find out what their experiences of racism in Germany have been. "Where are you from?" Afro-German journalist Jana Pareigis has heard that question since her early childhood. And she’s not alone. Black people have been living in Germany for around 400 years, and today there are an estimated one million Germans with dark skin. But they still get asked the often blatently racist question, "Where are you from?" Jana Pareigis is familiar with the undercurrents of racism in the western world. When she was a child, the Afro-German TV presenter also thought her skin color was a disadvantage. "When I was young, I wanted to be white," she says. Pareigis takes us on a trip through Germany from its colonial past up to the present day, visiting other Black Germans to talk about their experiences. They include German rapper and hip hop artist Samy Deluxe, pro footballer Gerald Asamoah and Theodor Michael, who lived as a Black man in the Third Reich. They talk about what it’s like to be Black in Germany.

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Some Final Thoughts on the 2018 #FemGeniusesinBerlin

Some Final Thoughts on the 2018 #FemGeniusesinBerlin (w/ Podcast Index and Slideshow)

It’s been a while since I contributed to “Some Final Thoughts.” So, bear with me, please, as I shake some of the rust off.

Despite earning tenure and promotion to Associate Professor this spring, this year had its rough spots—some worse than others, especially the death of one of my closest aunts. Because of that, a few people—some who I thought were close to me and others who I knew…

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Please Support the #FemGeniusesInBerlin!

  The Inaugural #FemGeniusesInBerlin (L to R): Kadesha Caradine, Celine Barry (Course Associate), Professor Heidi R. Lewis, Sharon Dodua Otoo (Guest Lecturer), Stefani Messick, Melissa L. Barnes, Casey Schuller, Beril Mese, Blaise Yafcak, Ximena Buller Machado, Kaimara Herron, and Nicole Tan

In 1986, Black German women published their first text, a collection of writing and visual art entitled Fa…

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