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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 Kersuze Simeon-Jones African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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Sounding South Asian, Sounding Black: The Sonic Politics of Appreciation or Appropriation

October 13, 2021October 12, 2021 Tao Leigh Goffe African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Music, music, Performance

On the dance floor, we dance to the same beats per minute (BPM). The tempo that structures Black diasporic life

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Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa

October 12, 2021October 11, 2021 Abraham Tapiwa Seda African Diaspora, black internationalism, Boxing, Gender, South Africa, sports, Zimbabwe

Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in

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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

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