https://youtu.be/SJziuYuLi8cDr. Araujo says, “I am a social and cultural historian writing transnational and comparative history. My work explores the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and their present-day legacies, including the long history of demands of reparations for slavery and colonialism. I have a particular interest in memory, heritage, and visual culture of…
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Damani and Ife Keene joined us to discuss their new book project, a pan-African liberation book of historical fiction, one that tells the story of Damani’s real-life ancestor Mariah Otey Reddick. We discussed the importance of this approach to telling history, the story itself and the African diasporic story that includes West Africa, Jamaica, Panama,…
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One thing for sure can be said of what 9/11 has meant; when this country recoils into itself, when it is hit – be that hit real or perceived – and it rallies itself around itself things get worse for damn near everybody else. Flags wave, planes fly and more Black people lose their jobs…
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