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Harvard Gazette: 'A 400-year community chronicle of African America' Interview with Alumna Fellow Keisha N. Blain

Harvard Gazette: 'A 400-year community chronicle of African America' Interview with Alumna Fellow Keisha N. Blain

April 21, 2021
Historians Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi began working on “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” in 2018. The best-selling collection, co-edited by Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” and Blain, author of “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom,” features 80 short historical pieces, personal essays, stories, and 10 poems by prominent Black writers. Told in five-year increments, the work offers a varied look at four centuries of the African American experience.
Statement of Support and Solidarity with the University of Cape Town and Residents of Cape Town, About Africa

Statement of Support and Solidarity with the University of Cape Town and Residents of Cape Town, About Africa

April 19, 2021
We would like to express our deepest sympathy for the loss endured by the University of Cape Town (UCT) and residents of Cape Town, South Africa due to devastating fires beginning on Sunday, April 18, 2021. The fire is reported to have been contained following tireless work by fire and rescue services; however, efforts continue to control flare-ups and respond to the displacement of students and Cape Town residents.
Harvard Gazette: 'Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects'

Harvard Gazette: 'Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects'

April 12, 2021
The disturbing nature of the Zealy daguerreotypes, depicting enslaved Africans in 19th-century America, stems in part from the treatment of their subjects. In these images, commissioned by Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz and currently housed at the Peabody Museum, the slaves are robbed of their life stories as well as their basic humanity.