Dmetrius Conley relishes his career as a Shakespearean actor
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'Richard III'
What: William Shakespeare's play, presented by SummerFest.
When: 8:45 p.m. July 6-10
Where: The Arboretum amphitheater, 500 Alumni Dr.
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at gate for general admission; $15/$18 reserved chair seating; $55/$70 reserved blanket space for four. Season tickets are $30 general admission, $40 reserved chair, $150 reserved blanket, $160 premium blanket. Buy advance tickets at Summerfestlex.org or 1-866-811-4111.
Rest of the fest: Frankenstein , July 13-17, and The Rocky Horror Show , July 20-24.
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Conley, a Lexington native, has yet to play the brooding Moor, which is a signature role for black actors with Shakespearean chops. But he has hardly been limited in pursing his Shakespearean ambition. Performing in New York, Boston and Moscow,
A new investigation has revealed that human skeletons discovered in caves on the North York Moors were likely to have been the victims of ritual sacrifice 2000 years ago. A forensic examination of their bones, for the BBC's History Cold Case series,
Throughout this up-and-down history, Mrs Howcroft's attachment has remained constant, despite the fact she and Paul were forced to sell the business, after Black Monday wiped out plans for a flotation in 1987. The banks got cold feet and the couple
Ali presented himself as a prophet of Allah, advancing a vision of religious nationalism in which black Americans were called to recognize their true heritage as “Moors” and therefore “Moslems,” the storied history and doctrines of which Ali laid out
The Cultural Museum is the city's first black history museum and is one block south on ML King from St. Benedict the Moor. We share Boles' vision for the historically black community's rebirth. But it won't happen without major support from the
Black History Month: Africans in Europe
The Moors inhabited Europe from 711 AD, until Columbus set sail to the Indies in 1492. They were driven out by the Spaniards, along with the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, who ordered the burning of the accumulated literature. Hence a people, their history, culture and empire were lost and forgotten. But not in its entirety.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Moors, as early as the Middle Ages and as late as the seventeenth century were, “commonly supposed to be black or very swarthy, and the word often used for Negro.” James E. Brunson and Runoko Rashidi, authors of The Moors of Antiquity wrote, “There is considerable difficulty in determining the ethnicity of the early Moors through terminology alone.”
There are several terms that have been used to identify the Moors. Arabic texts, for example, rarely used the word Moor and instead applied the term Berber (a word thought by some to be pejorative) to the early non-Arab peoples of Northwest Africa.
What Scholars Say Although scholars generally agree that the word Moor is derived from Mauri, there are profound disagreements among history authors on what the word originally meant and how it was applied. Philip K. Hitti, author of History of the Arabs, contends that the term Moor has a geographic designation meaning Western. He wrote.“The Romans called Western African Mauretania and its inhabitants, Mauri (presumably of Phoenician origin meaning ‘Western’) whence [the] Spanish Moro [and the] English Moor. The Berbers, therefore, were the Moors proper, but the term was conventionally applied to all Moslems of Spain and North-western Africa.”
Some historians described the Berbers as war-like, nomadic and a predatory population stretching from the borders of Egypt to Morocco, and often lived on the borders of the desert and at the foot of mountains.
Some Were Called Berbers Further research reveals the Moors were not all of Arab and North African mixed blood as many historians report, many of them were black. According to Ivan Van Sertima, associate professor of African studies at Rutgers University, Black Moors were in every corner of Europe. “Most people do not know that the peoples called Berbers by the classical Greek and Roman historians were black and affiliated with the then contemporary peoples of the East African area.”
Although much of the literature about the Berbers was burned, their presence was recorded by the Vikings and many others. Anthropologist, Dana Reynolds traced the African roots of the original North African peoples through a dozen Greek and Byzantine (neo-Roman writers) from the first to the sixth century AD. They describe the Berber population of Northern Africa, as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.
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