"It's important for African-Americans to see there are other race struggles going on in the world, " says Wells, whose e-book "Black Paris Profiles, " shares the stories of 24 black American and Afro-Caribbean folks who reinvented their lives here.
They said they wanted lots of serious analysis and stories about positive black role-models.
There were stories and urban legends of black IBCLCs.
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The stories are so full of anguish and black comedy that they obliterate any distance between the interviewees and the audience, even when the subjects are shot in shadows or from odd angles to protect their identities.
But in its brutal structure of white power and black penury, apartheid also contained visceral drama, stories of humanity willing and waiting to break out in a demotic exuberance which in his township work Mr Fugard caught so well.
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But most of the early news stories left out an even bigger number: black unemployment at 16.5 percent, black male unemployment a whopping 17.6 percent.
And when Stephen Hawking announced that micro black holes must exist, science fiction writers enthusiastically wrote stories using them as garbage disposal energy generators, or perfect murder weapons.
We climb the winding stairs, past a sleek black entryway sculpture of dancing partners jutting up nearly three stories from a ground-floor fountain, and enter a parlor clad completely in copper, the metallurgical complement to the ballroom.
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With the economy unraveling, ads for a new Visa Black Card from Barclays really stand out when sandwiched between news stories about layoffs and cutbacks.
The world premiere theatre performance of Black Diggers presents the touching, never-before-told stories of 1, 000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in WWI, while The Shadow King is a poignant and thought-provoking Indigenous re-working of King Lear, performed through a mix of live rock music using both English and Kriol (an Indigenous Australian dialect).
Dressed in black and her hair loose around her face, the actress shared the stories of women she met in Kosovo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who escaped the brutality of un-checked rape and abuse only to go on to roles as activists for the safety of other women in their communities.
And the fact that in many of the early stories that were done, there was not even mention of the black unemployment rate.
In an extreme case of the newsworthiness bias at work, news outlets ran stories about how the new cyclotron in Switzerland might just create a black hole that would instantly swallow up the earth.
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Unlike the actual newspapers, these black-and-white posters aren't for sale, but "the images and stories they conjure are amazing, " said one of the artists, Gilbert Proesch.
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Stories like that of Guardsman Stokes eventually led to senior officers commissioning research into the experiences of black and Asian service-men and women.
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