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North of Dixie: A New Book on Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

“People of African descent, wherever they reside, should always be mindful that national struggles can never be disentangled from diasporic

In 1803, on a small tropical island surrounded by beautiful oceans and relentless sugar plantations, a baby was born. The

*This is the sixth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the