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The Role of Water in African American History

May 4, 2018May 13, 2018 Tyler Parry slave trade

Flint, Michigan continues to confront a water crisis that, by all accounts, is a human tragedy. In 2014, the state of

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British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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Winning Our Freedoms Together: A New Book on African Americans and South Africans

March 12, 2018March 15, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism, Resistance, South Africa

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

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The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

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Black Power Meets Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Peter Cole black internationalism, black nationalism, black radical tradition, Pan-Africanism

Historian Seth Markle has written the latest must-have book on Black Power politics. His book is “required reading” because he

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