Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys
The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often
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Africa
“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain
In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What
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‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson
In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming
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‘From the Tricontinental to the Global South’: A New Book on Race and Transnational Solidarity
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council
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