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Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017

June 12, 2017June 14, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, Afro-Cubans, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

Images of police officers violently targeting black protestors in Buenaventura, Colombia, restraining Black Lives Matter activists in Charlotte, NC, or

Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora

June 7, 2017June 12, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #Horne, archives, black internationalism, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History In 2011, Gerald Horne, reflecting on

Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

June 6, 2017June 10, 2017 Brandon Byrd #Horne, Haiti

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History What are the defining themes of

The Young Historians Project in Britain, Part II: An Interview with Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis

May 20, 2017May 23, 2017 Tiffany Florvil Activism, African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean

This month I interviewed Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis about their involvement with the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organization

Battle at San Domingo, January Suchodolski, 1845. Photo: Wikimedia.

Translation for the Purposes of Indictment: Baron de Vastey in Colonial Jamaica

May 18, 2017May 22, 2017 Marlene L. Daut Caribbean, colonialism, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Jamaica, slavery

In February 1817, a man named Thomas Strafford returned to Kingston from the Kingdom of Hayti. Shortly afterward he would