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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery

July 6, 2016July 1, 2016 Guest Poster Colombia, Latin America

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

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On Faithful Witnessing

July 2, 2016July 2, 2016 Guest Poster Afrxlatinidad, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black women

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Yomaira Figueroa, assistant professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the Department of English

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Mae Mallory: Forgotten Black Power Intellectual

June 3, 2016June 2, 2016 Ashley Farmer black radical tradition

On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory, a prisoner at the Cuyahoga County Jail in

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Beyond The Walled City: An Interview with Guadalupe García

June 1, 2016May 31, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Cuba

This month I interviewed Dr. Guadalupe García about her new book Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana (University

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Pan-Africanism, Feminism and Finding Missing Pan-Africanist Women

May 31, 2016May 29, 2016 Guest Poster Amy Ashwood Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, Claudia Jones, feminism, Pan-Africanism

This is a guest post by Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya, an educator in Ontario’s post-secondary educator sector. He has a doctorate in

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