Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton
In today’s post, AAIHS President Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate professor of History at Temple University, about his
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African Diaspora
Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’
Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —
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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle
Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the
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To Exist is to Resist: A New Book on Black Feminism in Europe
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 Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point
In various corners of the internet, memes circulate about a Black man identified as “Anthony Johnson,” believed to be a
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