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This Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp (The University of North Carolina Press, Oct. 27, 2026) is a new history of Black women’s fugitive world making ...

They are fugitives, the keepers of this online space. They are also historians, women of color, graduate students, and daughters. But here they are fugitives, in the sense that to be authentically ...

In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched upon the shores of Galveston to announce the Emancipation Proclamation—on June 19th, 1865. But ...

Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as descriptor for traditional medicinal knowledge, ritual practices, and spirituality. Practitioners of Obeah, Myal, and other Afrocentric spiritual ...

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