African diaspora - AAIHS

Reconsidering Malcolm X and Islam

This is a guest post by Garrett Felber, a scholar of 20th century African American history at the University of Michigan

Recently, my colleague Keisha N. Blain wrote a post commemorating the anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first

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.