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Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and Madame De Mena: An Interview with Courtney Morris

January 12, 2017January 15, 2017 Kami Fletcher #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Universal Negro Improvement Association

In today’s post, Kami Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of African American History at Delaware State University, interviews Courtney Desiree Morris about

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A Global Vision: Ana Livia Cordero and the Puerto Rican Liberation Struggle

December 10, 2016December 8, 2016 Sandy Placido #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Puerto Rico

*This is the final post in our blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain. Blog

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Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: An Interview with Sonia Lee

December 3, 2016December 1, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, poverty, Puerto Rican history

With the recent election of Donald Trump and the very public hate speech and violence against people of color that

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A Bandung Conference in Harlem: The Meaning of Castro’s Visit Uptown

December 1, 2016November 30, 2016 Garrett Felber Anticolonialism, Cuba, Malcolm X, New York

Since Fidel Castro passed away last Friday, news coverage has been predictably polarizing: from celebrating his commitment to anticolonial liberation

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Remembering the Grenada Revolution: A Review of David Scott’s Omens of Adversity

November 29, 2016November 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Grenada, trauma

Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the Grenada revolution, a critical event in the history of West Indian radical

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