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Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora

August 20, 2018August 27, 2018 Jessica Marie Johnson

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We begin with this essay by blogger Jessica

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African Americans and the Congo: An Interview with Ira Dworkin

July 16, 2018July 20, 2018 Marius Kothor African Diaspora, imperialism, Pan-Africanism, Patrice Lumumba

In today’s post, Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at Yale University, interviews Ira Dworkin on his new

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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

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“My Brother in All the Ways That Count”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 29, 2018July 1, 2018 Uday Singh Mehta #JeffreyFerguson

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March

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Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut

June 4, 2018June 16, 2018 Julia Gaffield black intellectual history, blackness, freedom, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, slavery

In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron

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