From Duvalier to Trump: Authoritarian Rule and Transfers of Power
My PTSD seems to be back. I can scarcely watch the news. In the day, I easily spent five to
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African diaspora
A Black Immigrant Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read
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Kwame Nkrumah and Decolonial Imagination
Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism’s shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements. We have
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The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announced
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“Too Big To Be Small”: The Life and Legacy of Eric Williams
*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in
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