Black Swimmers and Diasporic Understandings of Water
James “Jim” Clarke was a Guyanese-born celebrated swimmer and diasporic pioneer. I first learned of him through a photo at the International
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Black Europe
The Legacy and Representation of Blacks in Spain
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it
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Black German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute
When the opening session of the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute began on August 2, 1991, in a
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Black Death and the Possibilities for Diasporic Solidarity
In the aftermath of Mike Brown’s 2014 death, comparatively small Black populations in London, Berlin and Amsterdam spearheaded solidarity marches
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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim
It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August
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