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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

In April of this year at a press conference staged in front of the National Mall, Democratic Party politicians Ed

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The use of software and visualizations has never been so prominent in