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‘Footprints of Panafricanism’: An Interview with Filmmaker Shirikiana Aina

July 23, 2018July 26, 2018 Nubia Kai africa, African Diaspora, Black film, film, Pan-Africanism, West Africa, women in film

In today’s post, poet, playwright and novelist Nubia Kai interviews Shirikiana Aina about her new film, Footprints of Panafricanism. An independent filmmaker,

Race and Identity in Medieval Europe

July 20, 2018July 23, 2018 Lynn Ramey Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Literary studies, poetry

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

Stuart Hall: “Familiar Stranger” of the Black Atlantic

July 6, 2018July 9, 2018 Marlene Gaynair African Diaspora, Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, Jamaica

Stuart Hall’s posthumous memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, is the most recent entry in his eponymous book

Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

The Black Studies Movement in Britain

June 22, 2018July 2, 2018 Kehinde Andrews Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain, education, education reform, Malcolm X

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means