Search results
Jan 5, 2023 · Aissé N’Diaye, 41, is a fashion designer and also works in the recovery of old images and stories of African families. “When I go to Africa, in my country of origin, in my village, or even ...
Oct 19, 2014 · BY RUNOKO RASHIDI* Joseph Bologne: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges of France. In an essay titled The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Edward Scobie documented the life of the African French composer ...
- How Did You Decide to Develop These Tours?
- How Do You Research and Identify The Sites That You Include on Your Tours?
- What Are Some Sites That Have Been Meaningful to You?
- Are Many of The Places You Include on Your Tours Identified with Markers?
- Have You Personally Made Efforts to Memorialize Meaningful places?
I became aware of the African-American presence in Paris a couple of years after I moved here. I became involved with SISTERS: An Association of African-American Women in France and met a woman who studied under Michel Fabre, a Frenchman who did his dissertation on Richard Wright and built his academic career on the African-American presence in Par...
There are core reference books that I started with. There are a lot of topics that people have not extensively researched, or that include pieces of misinformation that have been passed on and passed on. I look for reliable references in newspaper articles, blog posts, and things like that. I also learn things just from walking around. We started o...
The Luxembourg Gardens is an iconic part of the Paris landscape, and it happened to be my favorite place in Paris for years—before I had any inkling of the history there. I daresay that no one would ever conceive that there was so much African-American and Afro-French history wrapped up in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Virtually none. I’ve lived here 28 years now, and over the years there have been more markers put into place. But our history here is still largely hidden. This is one of the things I discuss during a course I created, the only continuing education training course for travel professionals that focuses on the African diaspora in Paris.
My organization, Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, was instrumental in getting two plaques installed on the facades of buildings in Montparnasseto honor Beauford. It was quite a bit of work, and those sites are included in Beauford Delaney’s Montparnasse walk.
Sep 3, 2018 · Prior to 1776, when the French spoke of Americans in Paris they meant “gens de couleur libres” — free men of color from France’s fabulously wealthy sugar colonies in the Caribbean. Buoyed ...
Dec 5, 2021 · Putting together Portraits de France was not an easy task, Clemente-Ruiz admits, given the wide scope of historical events. There was a desire to maintain gender balance, and cover as many areas ...
Browse 112,900+ french men stock photos and images available, or search for frenchman or italian men to find more great stock photos and pictures.
Apr 21, 2017 · Napoleon was preparing to re-establish slavery in the colonies, while black officers were to be purged from the military. According to Reiss, laws were introduced in mainland France that ...
