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Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’

Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In the 1970s, when the

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In Milestone Forever, a documentary

Time and again, usually a few times a year, I haphazardly stumble upon someone castigating the use of “jargon,” at

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History