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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

July 16, 2021July 15, 2021 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Black film, film, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

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Ada Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front

July 13, 2021July 11, 2021 Ashley Everson black protest, Black women, racism

In the midst of the Great Depression in 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely convicted of allegedly raping two

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“Pauulu’s Diaspora”: An Author’s Response

July 2, 2021June 26, 2021 Quito J. Swan #QuitoSwan, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable on Dr. Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr. Keisha

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The Small Spaces of Global Struggle

July 1, 2021June 26, 2021 Nicole Bourbonnais #QuitoSwan, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, Resistance

*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Global struggle is forged through mass protests, boycotts, and

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Melanesia, Creoles, and Ideas of Blackness

June 29, 2021June 28, 2021 Robbie Shilliam #QuitoSwan, Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pauulu's Diaspora

*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr.

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