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The Age of Garvey and the Reconstruction of the Global Garveyist Frontier

November 23, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey

Over the next few days (November 23-30, 2015), we are hosting a roundtable on Adam Ewing’s The Age of Garvey:

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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later

September 12, 2015September 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, slavery

This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would

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Conclusion: Roundtable on Pan-Africanism and Communism by Hakim Adi

July 31, 2015April 24, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, Communism, Pan-Africanism

This is the final day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. We began with an introduction

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The Communist International and the “Negro Question”

July 28, 2015January 4, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, Communism, Pan-Africanism

This is the fourth day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. On the first day, we

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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

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