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M. Keith Claybrook, Jr.

M. Keith Claybrook, Jr., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at CSU, Long Beach where he teaches classes on

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Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, education, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

“History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must

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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Tiffany Florvil black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

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Self-Revision as Praxis

June 7, 2022June 16, 2022 Sherry Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

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