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      • Bekladding van pand vereniging Ons Suriname en The Black Archives is poging tot racistische intimidatie
      • ‘Geen wegen blokkeren maar bruggen bouwen’ - NUC / TBA Statement
    • Samenwerkingen / Collabs >
      • HZT x The Black Archives
      • TBA x LUSH: Zwarte geschiedenis is Nederlandse geschiedenis
      • Patta x The Black Archives
      • So So Lobi 2 Winne x Patta x TopNotch
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  • Doneren
    • Wat willen wij met de donaties doen?
  • Archieven
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    • De Huiswoud Collectie
    • De Philomena Essed collectie
    • De Heilbron Collectie
    • De Willemsen Collectie
    • De Corsten Collectie
    • All Power To The People! Reading List
  • Agenda
    • 23/5: SNAP x TBA Talk with dr. Lewis Gordon
    • Expo: Zwart Manifest @ OSCAM >
      • 4/3 2022: Finissage Zwart Manifest Expo
      • OPEN CALL: Manifesting the Manifesto
    • Manifest voor Zwarte Emancipatie >
      • Anti-zwart racisme - actieonderzoek
    • Events (Uit het verleden) >
      • 2/4/22: Publieksopening Zwartheid Onder Ogen Zien | Facing Blackness
      • 29/4/22: Booklaunch ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’'
      • 21/3 2022: Townhall Sessie NCDR Anti
      • Expositie: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
      • Open oproep: DSGN-IN - Bijlmer Dossier
      • TBA Muur van Zwarte & Surinaamse helden
      • All Power To The People Reading List
      • Reeds geweest >
        • 6/11 Museumnacht: Black Joy As A Form Of Resistance
        • 8/10: Black Professional Meeting 2021
        • Expo 'Surinaamse School' @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
        • TBA x Sonsbeek: Sound Waves of Resistance
        • Expo: Zwarte Beweging: #BlackLivesMatterNL
        • 25/9 Verzwegen Verzet: de zmv-beweging
        • 9/4 The Hidden History of The Moors @ Museum het Rembrandthuis
        • 19/1 101 jaar Ons Suriname festival
        • 15/10: Boekpresentatie Antonlogie >
          • Anton de Kom Schrijfwedstrijd
        • M1 (Dead Prez) - Bigger Than HipHop Q&A
        • 22/2 Memre Anton de Kom | Herinner Anton de Kom
        • Books & BBQ festival 2019
        • Keti Koti 2019 x The Black Archives
        • 'Books We Share, That Make Us Care'
        • 100 jaar vereniging Ons Suriname festival
        • 27/8 HIER. Zwart in Amsterdam
        • 45 Jaar Srefidensi online special
        • 18/10 Why Freedom Could't Wait
        • Lancering poster Tien keer meer geschiedenis
        • 30 Mei 1969 - Trinta di Mei
        • The Black Vote
        • Debate Venice Biennale: The Measurement of Presence
        • Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
        • Books & BBQ festival 2018
        • Reimagining the Black Body
        • Retelling Black Radicalism w/ Kehinde Andrews
        • Docu Daddy & the Warlord
        • Fort Nieuw Amsterdam: gedeeld cultureel erfgoed
        • Summer Reading Sessions on Black Radical Thought
        • 5/10 De Verzwegen Geschiedenis van Zwart Verzet
        • 13-18 mei: Angela Davis & Gina Dent
        • De Zwarte Lijst
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Anton de Kom
        • Lezing Philomena Essed
        • Gloria Wekker - Witte Onschuld
        • 1 juli: The Black Archives x Keti Koti: launch crowdfunding campagne!
        • Expo: Onze * Tori (2018)
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May 03rd, 2017

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A Time Magazine with James Baldwin

Wow, today I went through some of the boxes which were left behind by Otto Huiswoud in the dusty attic of Vereniging Ons Suriname. I found a New York Times newspaper describing from 1957 the desegragation of the school in Little Rock Arkansas, a Time Magazine with James Baldwin on the cover and more interesting historical items. Great stuff!

By Mitchell Esajas
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May 03rd, 2017

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Langston Hughes's Beautiful Poem

Okayyy...so today historical sociologist Melissa Weiner from the US paid a visit to the library / archive of Vereniging Ons Suriname. Whilst casually going through some of the boxes from the collection of Otto Huiswoud we found a few signed books from the poet Langston Hughes and a few other historical books and newspapers. Apparantly Otto Huiswoud and Langston Hughes knew eachother quite well. Beautiful unexplored history and hidden treasures...
He once wrotes this beautiful poem:
"Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow."
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Kathleen Cleaver and Black European Solidarity

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Another step forward and an another interesting find at the Vereniging Ons Suriname archive / New Urban Café / black library... After installing the first bookshelves for the collection of books and archives I randomly opened one of the dusty boxes with a folders with old papers. After turning a few pages I found a letter signed by Kathleen Cleaver on behalf of the Black Panther Party to the European Black Panther Party Solidarity Committee from 1970. Scrolling through the papers I found letters of correspondence between the Surinamese students union and the Trinidadian writer CLR James who wrote among others "the Black Jacobins" about the Haitian Revolution. Apparently he had several speaking engagements in Amsterdam and the Hague.
We found a lot of letters and documents condemning American imperialism through the Vietnam war and American multinationals in Surinam. We found invitations and letters of correspondence between the Surinamese students, Antillean students and African student unions in London, Ghana and Ethiopia mentioning how assissination of Lumumba and how western powers tried to destabilize the Decolonizing countries. And we found lots of telegrams with expressions of solidarity with different movements such as a hunger strikes in Mexico in the 50s and 60s...
Again its amazing to see how connected these Surinamese students were with other oppressed people across the world. The fact that their hand written notes are still here 50 years later shows how organized they were and their revolutionary mindset become apparent from the letters and activities they were engaged in. So it strikes me that much of this history has remained hidden in dusty boxes on this attic...
Guess its time to bring this history and these stories into the present again cause it was already inspiring for us to see these documents which prove that former generations already had the spirit of resistance and revolution...as CLR James once wrote:
"The process of revolution is essentially the process of people finding themselves."

By Mitchell Esajas


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