Welcome to Black History Month 2023

February is Black History Month in the US and on this blog. Below are some posts I am thinking of doing or have done this month on the history of Africa and the Diaspora, especially in the US. Suggestions are welcomed!

Posts I have done so far:

• (none so far)

Posts I might do this month:

Promised posts:

• series: Egyptian century of the week
• series: chapters of “The 1619 Project”
• slavery in Libya
• War in Ethiopia
• African Christianity
• “Dum diversas”
• Mary Seacole
• Moors
• South Africa
• voter suppression
• Wilmington Riot
• Zimbabwe

Proposed posts:

• 1619
• Black genocide
• Nilo-Saharans
• Black Britain
• Rand rebellion
• Ghana Empire
• neocolonialism
• decolonization
• Pan-Africanism
• Afropolitanism
• Afrofuturism
• noirisme
• Black Lives Matter
• woke
• Brixton
• Windrush migration
• Whitehawk Woman
• Beachy Head Lady
• Ivory Bangle Lady
• blackamoors
• Black Panthers
• Haile Selassie
• The New Negro
• Black Wall Street
• Black Literature (series): Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hausa, Swahili, Black Arab, Black American
• Bostwana Gold Rush
• Zanzibar Slave Trade
• Nat Turner
• Liberia
• Republic of Maryland
• Haitian Revolution
• Toussaint Louverture
• Maroons
• Queen Nanny
• Axum
• African Burial Ground (New York)
• Africa Free School (New York)
• Sojourner Truth
• Stokely Carmichael
• Thurgood Marshall
• US racism in the 1800s
• US racism in the 1900s

Suggestions are welcomed!

– Abagond, 2023.

See also:

• Black Americans – a brief history (and a history of the history)
• history months past:
  • Black –  2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
  • White – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
  • Asian – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 (a bust) 2021 2022
  • Aboriginal – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
  • Hispanic – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
  • Native – 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

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