what do people do onblack solidarity day
2006-11-05 10:13:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
1. ORIGIN
Black Solidarity Day (an African American holiday) was founded in 1969 (1971, as one source states, is incorrect) in Brooklyn, by Dr. Carlos E Russell. As a concept, it derives from the play, 'Day of Absence' by Douglas Turner Ward. The day is based on the extreme social, political, and economic consequences that would ensue if all Black people were to disappear for one day.
http://www.newpaltz.edu/oracle/article.cfm?id=359
http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0511/03/news/7students_.htm
http://studentaffairs.shu.edu/wiso/Arcive/2005-06/events/blacksolidarityday.htm
2. CUSTOMS
a) Staying at home, not using public transport, not buying anything at a store, chanting and beating drums in burial grounds.
http://www.harlemlive.org/community/events/blacksolidarity/index.html
b) Wearing of black clothes, and display of black and silver ribbons.
http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0511/03/news/7students_.htm
http://www.bupipedream.com/pipeline_web/display_article.php?id=1019
c) Authorised absence from classes and examinations.
http://www.newpaltz.edu/ugc/policies_blacksolidarity.html
d) Dance tuition and eating soul food
http://studentaffairs.shu.edu/wiso/Arcive/2005-06/events/blacksolidarityday.htm
e) Singing of the national black anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing", holding lighted candles, giving speeches
http://www.maroon-news.com/media/storage/paper742/news/2004/11/05/News/Lift-Every.Voice.And.Sing.Colgate.Celebrates.Black.Solidarity.Day-795058.shtml?norewrite200611090637&sourcedomain=www.maroon-news.com
http://www.bupipedream.com/pipeline_web/display_article.php?id=1019
f) film screening, discussions, lectures, performances (recreation of the Cotton Club with live music, dancing, poetry and other readings), marches, candlelight vigils.
http://kendrick.colgate.edu/maroon/archivesF99/110599/news/hrr.html
g) Black Entrepreneurs Vendor's Market
http://cunyeventcalendar.clients.cwe.org/eventDetail.asp?EventId=11906
2006-11-08 23:03:59 · answer #1 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-05 12:37:51 · answer #2 · answered by winkels 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What is the origin of black solidarity day?
what do people do onblack solidarity day
2015-08-10 12:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by Susanne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't 6 dudes beat 1 dude up? To me that's what it's about. If the nooses were hung, take it to the cops. Don't gang up on 1 guy who may have been involved. Racism doesn't mean you can take the law into your own hands. The 6 who allegedly attacked this kid only make white racists more racist. Whatever color I choose to wear on this day has nothing to do with the Jena 6. Violence is not the answer.
2016-03-14 21:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An attempt to persuade the world that "black" is a concept that actually exists? I would imagine it raises a wry smile in Africa.
2006-11-05 10:15:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋