By CAMILLE C. CARR La memoria de mis ancestras camina conmigo y me acompaña a todas partes. [The memory of my female ancestors walks by my side and accompanies me everywhere I go.] —Mayra Arboleda Mina MY RELATIONSHIP WITH VICHE began on a chilly September night in Colombia’s capital … [Read more...] about The Archives of Viche: Black Women and the Embodied Production of Distilled Spirits in the Colombian Pacific
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Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University
The John L. Warfield Papers BY ZARIA EL-FIL Freedom has long been theorized in university spaces as a matter of intellectual engagement. Historically, Black freedom organizing has taken place at the collegiate level through research that throws white western conceptions of world order into … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University
The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership
BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves known in Portuguese as quilombos, located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Ribeira Valley (Vale da Ribeira). During the early 1980s, amid an … [Read more...] about The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership