Immigration Policy, the West Indies, and Canadian Black Activism in the 1960s
Last month I wrote about a protest held by Toronto’s Black Lives Matter movement and the emergence of the Black
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Black Power, Name Choices, and Self-Determination
On March 6, 1964, Nation of Islam (NOI) founder Elijah Muhammad announced that he was renaming Cassius Marcellus Clay as
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Teaching the African Diaspora in Canada
As a scholar of African American history, I teach students about the experience of Africans in the Americas. Through survey
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A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama
While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I
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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker
Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you
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