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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

In today’s post, Alaina E. Roberts, the Dietrich Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of

During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

On Sunday April 17, 2016, my extended family in Tidewater Virginia was struck by the tragedy of a double loss.