Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell
On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in
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Race
Black Networks, Visualization, and Mapping Tools
*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The use of software and visualizations has never been so prominent in
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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac
It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate
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The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Brazilian Publisher
Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in
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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1
Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal
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