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Hakim Adi is Professor of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester, and the most prominent and preeminent scholar of Blacks in the UK. He is the author of several titles, including Black British History, New Perspectives, West Africans in Britain/1900-1960, and the focus of this episode: the essential and illuminating academic survey, Pan-Africanism/A History. In this conversation, Adi discusses the roots of Pan-Africanism, sheds light on some of the unheralded figures in this history, and shares some of his efforts to bring more young scholars of color into the field. This is how we RECOLLECT.


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Verena Krebs is the author of Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book explores why Ethiopia’s Solomonic kings initiated long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen delegations dispatched by this powerful Christian kingdom in the Horn of Africa. In this conversation, Krebs discusses her motivation for writing the book, how the book challenges longstanding assumptions about African agency, and shares her thoughts on the current political and humanitarian challenges facing Ethiopia today. This is how we recollect….


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Natasha Henry is president of the Ontario Black History Society, and the author of several titles, including Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada, and Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada, among others. She is also the steward of a new research project entitled “One Too Many” - a dissertative effort focusing on the enslavement of African men, women, and children in Upper Canada between 1760 and 1834. In this conversation, Henry discusses the undertold history of slavery in Ontario, her contribution to the upcoming project, A Black People’s History of Canada, and her reasons for developing a Black Canadian digital archive to inform and empower the rest of the Pan-African family. This is how we RECOLLECT.

To connect with Natasha Henry, you can find her on Twitter @slaveryontario, or visit the project website at EnslavedAfricansinEarlyOntario.ca. To learn more about the Ontario Black History Society, please visit www.blackhistorysociety.ca. To purchase books, and support independent booksellers, please visit our collection at bookshop.org. To learn more about our other shows, including Sky is Black and the Pan-African Food Festival, please visit out website at www.recollect.media.


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Graham Hodges is professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of several titles, including Black New Jersey from Rutgers University Press, The Marion Thompson Wright Reader from Rutgers Press, Pretends to Be Free from Routledge Press, Slavery, Freedom, and Culture among Early American Workers by Routledge Press, Black Itinerants of the Gospel from Palgrave and Madison House, and David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City, published by University of North Carolina Press, among others. One of his most recent works, from Fordham University Press, is The Book of Negroes, which is an updated publication of The Black Loyalist Directory, which Hodges first brought forth in 1996. In this conversation, Hodges discusses The Book of Negroes, how it came to be, and how it is deeply connected to a global Black migration story that includes Nova Scotia, Great Britain, the Caribbean, and Sierra Leone.


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Warren Milteer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the author of North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020), and his most recent work, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021). In this conversation, Milteer shares how this free community of color came to be, how they launched independent churches, schools, and businesses, and how they endured an ongoing battle against forced servitude, reenslavement, deportation, and white supremacy.

To connect with Warren Milteer

www.warrenmilteer.com

Twitter: @wemilteer

https://twitter.com/WEMilteer



To purchase Beyond Slavery Shadow:

University of North Carolina Press

uncpress.org

The RECOLLECT Bookshop

Bookshop.org/shop/recollect



LEARN MORE!

Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. A Facebook event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/374596030969753/

https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AcErLcs1Tr6SU6iHXf6DUQ



RECOLLECT is a production of Recollect Media. To learn more about our other shows and events, including the first annual Pan-African Food Festival, please visit our website at www.recollect.media.

“History is not just his story, or her story, or my story - it’s our story. It is with us, it is alive, and it will survive as long as the truth shall live. Never forget, never ever forget...who we are.”

- B. Francis Clark


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See Bruce's Beach returned to the Bruce family!

https://youtu.be/KvAmtVp1Uns



To learn more about Kavon Ward, please visit justiceforbrucesbeach.com and whereismyland.org. You can also visit her website at kavonward.com, or find her on Twitter @kavonwardpoet, or on Instagram @KavonWard1.



To learn more about Bruce’s Beach, check out the following resources:



A Calif. Beach Was Seized From Black Owners In 1924. Now The Family Will Get It Back

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1041837156/bruces-beach-manhattan-newsom-los-angeles



California Governor Gavin Newsom authorizes the return of Bruce’s Beach to the Bruce family:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-30/photos-bruces-beach-property-returned-to-family



Moving to Right Historical Wrong, Governor Newsom Signs Legislation to Return Bruce’s Beach to Black Descendants

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/30/moving-to-right-historical-wrong-governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-return-bruces-beach-to-black-descendants/



From LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn

https://hahn.lacounty.gov/bruces-beach-history



CONNECT WITH KAVON WARD:



Twitter

https://twitter.com/KavonWardPoet



Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/kavonward1/



Where is my land?

https://whereismyland.org



Justice for Bruce’s Beach

https://justiceforbrucesbeach.com



RECOLLECT is a production of Recollect Media. To purchase books, and support independent booksellers, please visit our collection at bookshop.org/shop/RECOLLECT. To learn more about our other shows and events, including the first annual Pan-African Food Festival, please visit our website at www.recollect.media.


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