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Museums, Newspapers, and African American Archives

May 7, 2016May 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history

The nearing completion and grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

What Obama’s Trip to Havana Revealed about Race in Cuba and the U.S.

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Afrxlatinidad, Barack Obama, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba

During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism

“Africa for the Africans”: The Expanding Field of Global Garveyism

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black nationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

Recently, the Global Garveyism conference took place at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Organized by Professors Adam Ewing (Virginia

Pragmatic Black Nationalism

April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, Pan-Africanism

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

We Are Equal African Peoples

April 28, 2016April 28, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, Pan-Africanism

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black