As part of the Writer's Discussion Series, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will host Benjamin Talton, professor of African history at Temple University. His research, writing, and teaching focus on politics and culture in modern Africa … Read more
In ‘African Kings and Black Slaves,’ Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African–European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing … Read more
In ‘Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865,’ William L. Andrews studies an entire generation of slave narrators. More than 60 mid–19th century narratives reveal how work, family, skills and connections made for social … Read more
TaKeia N. Anthony offers the first study of the ideology, influences and contributions of the Universal Ethiopian Students’ Association (UESA) and The African: The Journal of African Affairs. From 1927–1948, the UESA mobilized the African diaspora to fight against imperialism and … Read more
