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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

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Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Pan-Africanism, Politics, race

In today’s post, AAIHS President Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate professor of History at Temple University, about his

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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To Exist is to Resist: A New Book on Black Feminism in Europe

July 26, 2019July 15, 2019 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, black politics, Black women, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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