Black Star Line

(noun)

The Black Star Line was a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey, organizer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The shipping line was to facilitate the transportation of goods, and eventually African-Americans, throughout the African global economy. It derived its name from the White Star Line, a line whose success Garvey felt he could duplicate, which would become a standard of his Back-to-Africa movement.

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  • Marcus Garvey

    • He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), as well as the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement that promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
    • He visited Tuskegee and afterward met a number of black leaders.
    • On June 27, 1919, the Black Star Line of Delaware was incorporated by the members of UNIA, with Garvey as President.
    • By September, the Black Star Line obtained its first ship, rechristened as the S.S.
    • Run by a group called the Friends of Negro Freedom, the campaign pressed the federal government to investigate the Black Star Line.

  • The Rise of Garveyism

    • Marcus Garvey, a political leader and orator, was a proponent of black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
    • He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), and also founded the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement.
    • Garvey visited Tuskegee, and afterward visited with a number of black leaders.
    • On June 27, 1919, the Black Star Lineof Delaware was incorporated by the members of the UNIA, with Garvey as president.
    • Convinced that blacks should have a permanent homeland in Africa, Garvey sought to develop Liberia.

  • Planck's Quantum Hypothesis and Black Body Radiation

    • A black body emits radiation called black body radiation.
    • A black body in thermal equilibrium (i.e. at a constant temperature) emits electromagnetic radiation called black body radiation.
    • This equation explains the black body spectra shown below.
    • Despite its simplicity, Planck's law describes radiation properties of objects (e.g. our body, planets, stars) reasonably well.
    • Black line is a prediction of a classical theory for an object at 5,000K, showing catastropic discrepancy at shorter wavelengh.

  • Jackie Robinson

    • Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player in the United States.
    • His athletic abilities prevailed despite the intense pressures caused by breaking the "color line. " Robinson won respect and became a symbol of black opportunity.
    • His impressive running speed, powerful hitting, and strong fielding made Robinson a key player on a team with many stars.
    • The Dodgers succeeded well with such black stars as Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe.
    • Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player in the United States

  • An Invitation

    • Of course, many of the objects in Messier's catalogue are galaxies and clusters and therefore consist of stars.
    • The Crab Nebula and its central neutron star, the Crab Pulsar, emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, accelerate cosmic rays, harbour relativistic shocks and strong magnetic fields.
    • Relating the spectral lines and their strengths to particular atoms are their abundances requires a detailed knowledge of the physics of atoms (Chap.8) and their transitions (Chap.9).
    • As the gas cools subsequent to the supernova, it forms molecules (Chap.10) and eventually another generation of stars.
    • Meanwhile in the centre of the supernova remnant the neutron star or black hole formed may accrete from the ejectra, the interstellar medium or a companion (Chap.13).

  • Yoruba Artwork in the transAfrican Context

    • In the midst of the racial and cultural turmoil of the 1960s, a group of African-American artists endeavored to relate its artwork to the black masses.
    • TransAfrican art is characterized by rhythmic use of lines, vibrant colors, bold patterns, motion, and often an emotional intensity.
    • One of his key works, Victory in the Valley of Eshu (1970), depicts an elderly black couple holding what appears to be an eye-shaped pinwheel.
    • The newly prominent element of shine, an aesthetic effect mimicking or displaying physical shine in order to reflect the bright, star-like quality of ordinary African Americans, is also visible in this piece.
    • This effect achieves the celebration aspect of black art: an art that, as stated by Donaldson, defines, glorifies, and directs black people—an art for the people's sake.

  • American Art Deco Architecture

    • Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.
    • Streamline Moderne was a concept first created by industrial designers, who stripped Art Deco design of its ornament in favor of the aerodynamic pure-line concept of motion and speed developed from scientific thinking.
    • The Hecht Company Warehouse (Washington, D.C.) is a Streamline Moderne style building.The building uses glass block extensively, culminating in a twelve-pointed star-shaped cupola at the corner, which is illuminated at night.
    • Black brick interspersed with glass block spells out "The Hecht Co" at the fifth floor.

  • Goya

    • From royal portraits completed while he was court painter to the Spanish Crown; to political, evocative paintings that date from later in his life, Goya's work is renowned for its expressive line, color and brushwork as well as its distinct subversive commentary.
    • It was here that he created his "Black Paintings", a number of intense works with themes of fear and madness.
    • The themes expressed in Goya's "Black Paintings" perhaps reflect his own personal inner turmoil of his later life.
    • 'Saturn Devouring His Son' is one work amongst Goya's 'Black Paintings. '

  • Problems

    • What is the total about of energy released per gram of material as it falls from infinity to the surface of a neutron star?
    • How many grams of material would have to fall each second on the neutron star to generate an Eddington luminosity through accretion?
    • What is the total energy of a ring at a distance r from the central black hole of mass $M$?
    • As the ring shrinks mass is moving toward the black hole.
    • The accretion rate is determined by the evolution of the orbit of the black hole with its companion, so it doesn't know about the Eddington limit of the black hole.

  • Introduction: The several faces of power

    • Consider the three simple graphs of networks in figures 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, which are called the "star," "line," and "circle."
    • What about the position of A in the line network?
    • Is being at the end of the line an advantage or a disadvantage?
    • In the star network, Actor A has degree six, all other actors have degree one.
    • In the line network, matters are a bit more complicated.