What is the Maafa?
This essay explains how the term Maafa is used across Kentake Page. The term Maafa was introduced by Marimba Ani in her 1988 book, Let the...
Category : Black Issues
Articles on Black Issues.
SINNERS and the Three Worlds: A Cosmological Reading of Black Woundedness
On the word Maafa In this cine-essay, I advance an original reading of Sinners that treats the film as a meditation on the Maafa as a cosmological...
The shooting of Anthony Griffin: Outrage in Montreal’s Black Community
On November 11, 1987, 19 year old Anthony Griffin was shot and killed by Constable Allan Gossett in Montreal, Quebec causing outrage in the city’s...