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Reassessing African-European Encounters

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 Nancy A. Andoh africa, African Diaspora, Afro-European Encounter, Black Atlantic, Black Europe, Political Thought, slavery

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

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Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German Movement, Germany, May Ayim, Transnational Feminism

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

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George Floyd and the Global Fight for Black Lives

May 26, 2021June 5, 2021 Mickell Carter Black Europe, black internationalism, blackness, police brutality, police violence

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

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Beyond Shorelines: Audre Lorde’s Queered Belonging

February 15, 2021February 14, 2021 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German, black politics, Black Queers, Germany, LGBT, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde welcomed the opportunity

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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell

September 9, 2020September 17, 2020 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Black Europe, France

In today’s post, blogger Annette Joseph-Gabriel interviews Robin Mitchell about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies

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