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Akeia de Barros Gomes

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Newport Center for Black History Book Club. Our first book is the amazing HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyaso. Read along with us 🤓

09.02.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Respectability politics always been trash

09.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At the end of this presentation today, the first woman to raise her hand to ask a question got choked up and started crying. Sharing these perspectives MATTERS, amplifying Black and Dawnland Indigenous voices MATTERS, making human connections MATTERS. Especially now. This is how we have survived.

09.02.2025 02:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Big setting sun 😎

08.02.2025 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Doors of Return: Recovering Black New England Histories Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes is Director of the Center for Black History at the Newport Historical Society and a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Lecturer at Brown University’s…

Presentation on the work behind the Newport Center for Black History, set to open summer of 2026

24.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I still haven't been able to bring myself to actually watch the show...but you're right, because I'm currently re-reading the book!

12.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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