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On The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books

June 26, 2019June 16, 2019 Tiffany Florvil Activism, African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German, book

The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books was first held in London, England in 1982, and

Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice

May 16, 2019May 6, 2019 Ralph Callebert Activism, black internationalism, black protest, labor, race, Racial Capitalism, Resistance, South Africa

Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and

Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, Black political thought, Black radicalism, colonialism, Neoimperialism, repression, Walter Rodney

On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students

Frederick Douglass and a Diplomacy of Blackness

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Ronald Angelo Johnson #DouglassForward, Diplomacy, Frederick Douglass, Haiti

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each