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Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR Contributor , Ari Gutman
Maryland Supreme Court Decision Favors The Bethesda African Cemetery: Desecrators Could Face Potential Lawsuits
25 Sep 2024
Government agencies in the state of Maryland are allowing real estate developers to disturb a sacred place of rest for enslaved people and their descendants. Organizers have continued to oppose the…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Kathryn Benjamin Golden
06 Apr 2022
This week’s featured scholar is Kathryn Benjamin Golden. Golden is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at University of Delaware. Her article is “‘Armed in the Great Swamp’: Fear, Maroon…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Articles of Pacification with the Maroons of Trelawny Town, Concluded March the First, 1738
16 Feb 2022
The history of the Maroons of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country is a story of the difficulties of Black sovereignty and autonomy in an imperial world.
Justin Hosbey, J.T. Roane
A Totally Different Form of Living: On the Legacies of Displacement and Marronage as Black Ecologies
01 Dec 2021
This is a brief reflection on water, swamps, bayous, wetlands, and Black life in the United States, and the forms of freedom and racialized unfreedom that these ecologies have facilitated.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Maroons Sought Freedom on Ocean Currents
20 Apr 2021
Justin Dunnavant, a post- doctoral scholar who has researched maroon cultures in the Caribbean, Central America and African, said “there is a Black history that occurs on the ocean
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Maroons As Movement Role Models
20 Jul 2020
The contemporary Black struggle should draw on the experience and example of maroons, the escaped slaves that formed communities of freedom beyond the reach of the slave masters, said Willi