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Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017

June 12, 2017June 14, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, Afro-Cubans, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

Images of police officers violently targeting black protestors in Buenaventura, Colombia, restraining Black Lives Matter activists in Charlotte, NC, or

Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora

June 7, 2017June 12, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #Horne, archives, black internationalism, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History In 2011, Gerald Horne, reflecting on

A Civil Rights Protest Is Happening Right Now in Colombia

May 25, 2017May 30, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

As of May 10, thousands in the majority-Black department of Chocó in the northwestern corridor of the Colombian Pacific are

Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker

May 5, 2017May 8, 2017 Francisco Herrera Frederick Douglass, Latin America, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews

Representations of Black Women in Cuba

May 4, 2017May 6, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Afro-Cubans, Black women, Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America

With the continued box office success of the Fate of the Furious, we are once again returning to the idea