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Discours de Barack Obama sur la question raciale
Mars 2007
« Nous le peuple, dans le but de former une union plus parfaite.
Il y a deux cent vingt et un ans, un groupe d’hommes s’est rassemblé dans une salle qui existe toujours de l’autre côté de la rue, et avec ces simples mots, lança l’aventure inouïe de la démocratie américaine.
Agriculteurs et savants, hommes politiques [...]
Obama’s mother and Black Orpheus
(Left to right): Jim Cole / AP; Maxine Boxer
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Black Orpheus was an award-winning musical retelling of the myth of Orpheus, a tale of doomed love.
Black Orpheus (1959) by Marcel Camus 1
The movie was considered exotic because it was filmed in Brazil, but it was written and directed by white Frenchmen. The result was sentimental [...]
King - Obama : exploring the legacy
I have a dream
King’s famous speech “I Have a Dream“, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 1
1865: the abolition of slavery
1925: the Black Renaissance
1985: the first Dr Martin Luther King’s Day.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live [...]
