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Born from the Black arts era collective which created the impressive cultural legacy which continues today, is the International Afrikan Arts Festival.  It is a 4-day outdoor festival, held in Brooklyn, NY, comprised of an Afrikan Marketplace, various musical and theatrical talents and a reputation that brings summer-goers wishing to congregate and associate positively out into the festivities.

African Street Festival 1990 Si Mange (We are One), pinback button, 1990.

This button is from the 1990 Afrikan Street Festival aka "The East", which was a unforgettable event.  The lead-up to the Festival was Nelson Mandela's

My teen years occurred in the midst of significant Pan-African cultural and political flux.  A global demand for divestment from South Africa's apartheid regime played a favorable part towards the release of African National Congress co-founder Nelson Mandela in 1990.  Oh, an era whence comes the debut of an African-American entertainer who then chose the name Queen Latifah.  This pinback button was distributed at the 19th annual African Street Festival(The East)  in Brooklyn, just  a week after Nelson Mandela first visited Bed-Stuy blocks.  

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Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, Havana, 1981.

Did you know?

The preamble of the Cuban Constitution recognizes "the Indians who preferred extermination to submission", "the slaves who rebelled against their masters", and "those who awoke the national consciousness and the ardent Cuban desire for an independent homeland and liberty."