African diaspora - AAIHS

Rethinking Early Slave Literacy

Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a man of immeasurable courage and vision. We

[T]he enemies of Africa had understood. They had realized quite clearly that [Patrice] Lumumba was sold—sold to Africa, of course.

One of the stranger stories that broke with the new year was the report (now discredited) of pop star Beyoncé writing

In my recent review of Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement