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4 hours ago · In 1967, Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), standing on a tractor-trailer in Mississippi in front of a large group of demonstrators, exclaimed, “What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!” 1 This expression of Black Power in the context of social activism, a charismatic male speaker, and afro-styled hair is probably one of the most visually familiar instantiations of Black nationalism.
4 hours ago · Edward Said’s enormously influential book, Orientalism, is probably the most strictly Foucaultian among important local or topic-defined American theories. Said develops Foucault’s ideas about knowledge and power, his account of the way discourse organizes what can be said or thought, and how discourse is integrated with institutional structures.
4 hours ago · Parish boundaries, for example, were eroded as itinerant preachers redefined religious congregations from assemblies based on propinquity to ones defined by ideological and doctrinal consensus (Hall, 1994). The unmooring of congregation from place led to a burst of religious innovation, and the flowering of religious pluralism (Walters, 1997).
4 hours ago · Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s /; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːriʏs eˈrɑsmʏs]; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
4 hours ago · Oakland City Hall and central plaza in 1917. Built of framed steel with unreinforced masonry infill at a cost of US$ 2 million in 1914. The structure was the tallest building in the city until the Tribune Tower was built in 1923. Oakland has a mayor-council government. The mayor is elected at-large for a four-year term.
4 hours ago · A stained-glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180. It depicts the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. It is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western history: antiquity, medieval, and modern. Major developments include the economic predominance of agriculture, exploitation of the peasantry, slow inter-regional ...
1 day ago · Website. www.cityoftulsa.org. Tulsa ( / ˈtʌlsə / TULL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [5] It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa metropolitan area, a region with 1,034,123 ...
