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The Mystique of Chica da Silva

February 24, 2023February 16, 2023 Menika Dirkson Brazil, Chica da Silva, Enslaved women, Gender, Latin America, slavery

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

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Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism

November 28, 2022November 25, 2022 Ashley Everson black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism

Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial

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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German Movement, Germany, May Ayim, Transnational Feminism

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

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