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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo

October 7, 2024October 6, 2024 Sophia Monegro archives, Black women, Santo Domingo

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans

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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 Max Lewontin #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Black women, Caribbean, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In June 1984 Trinidadian labor

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Situating Nigerian Women in Global Black Politics Discourse

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, African Diaspora, Gender, Nigeria

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In 1929, before the wave

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Online Forum-Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora

September 13, 2024September 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism, African Diaspora, Black women

September 16-23, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum considering the

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