Mau Mau Uprising: Kenya’s Anti-British Rebellion and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi_1970s Play By Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Micere Githae Mugo

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THE REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF DREADLOCKS

Dreadlocks are a common sight across our homes, schools, places of work and even of worship. It wasn’t always this way, and it took persistence and patience to mainstream an authentic African hairstyle. Stigma around dreadlocks was… pic.twitter.com/lU0lvy2uZn
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A ‘major disturbance’ broke out August 21 at San Quentin Prison after two convicts, one of them George Jackson (R), a Soledad Brother, tried to escape from their rock-walled enclosure. Jackson was killed in the escape attempt, the other prisoner gave up and was recaptured. The Soledad Brothers are three black convicts charged with slaying a guard at the Soledad State Prison in January 1970. They are (L-R): Fleeta Drumgo, 26; John W. Cluchette, 28; and Jackson, 29.