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Mapping Blackness in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav Space

July 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Sunnie Rucker-Chang African Diaspora, Black Europe, capitalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, race, Soviet Union

96-year-old Fatmire is one of the few remaining members of a small and relatively unknown Afro-Albanian “Black” community in Montenegro, a

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Luncheon in honor of the President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, 1962. Photo: Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy africa, Anticolonialism, Donald Trump, imperialism, racism, Soviet Union

A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe

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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

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Black October: An Introduction

October 30, 2017November 2, 2017 Jennifer Wilson and Jennifer Suchland Black October, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Russia, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union

*This is the introduction to our online forum on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora 2017 is not a year lacking in

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