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Global 2016 and the Radical Imagination

“We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.” – Assata Shakur Watching the

“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

*This is the first of a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by blogger Keisha N. Blain.

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Yomaira Figueroa, assistant professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the Department of English