Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights
Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as
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Black Political Thought
Colluding to Cripple the National Negro Labor Council
In late October 1951, one of the most important African American trade union initiatives in U.S. history was launched. “The
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Black Journalists and The Great Migration
Coined in 1897, the phrase “all the news that’s fit to print” is a motto of the newspaper industry designed
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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during
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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology
In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.
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