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America’s Enslaved Dead

October 31, 2016October 30, 2016 Brandon Byrd Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston

On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in

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Reflections on Race, Diaspora, and Nation

October 29, 2016October 28, 2016 Tshombe Miles Afro-Brazilians, blackness, Brazil

“People of African descent, wherever they reside, should always be mindful that national struggles can never be disentangled from diasporic

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Slavery, Migration, and Narratives of the Black Pacific

October 28, 2016November 29, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount Antigua, black internationalism

In 1803, on a small tropical island surrounded by beautiful oceans and relentless sugar plantations, a baby was born. The

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Women’s Leadership in the Organization of Afro-American Unity

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 Garrett Felber #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

*This is the sixth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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The Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series: An Interview with Quito Swan and Glenn Chambers

October 25, 2016March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain Black Power Studies

In today’s post, I sit down with Professors Quito Swan and Glenn Chambers to discuss their book series on the

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