“More and More Influential”: Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump
As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and
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Caribbean
Remembering Marcus Garvey Through Reggae
Listen to the music. February 6 marks the birthday of Bob Marley. Born in Jamaica in 1945, the Reggae icon
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Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora
The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest
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“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain
In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term
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On Post-War Black British History
It is always fascinating to read historical accounts of the period you have lived through, or think you are familiar
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