Go around 20 miles up the Savannah River towards Ebenezer Creek and you’ll probably miss the patch of trees once known as the Bear Creek Fortress. The name might fool you a bit, the fortress wouldn’t ...

This Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp (The University of North Carolina Press, Oct. 27, 2026) is a new history of Black women’s fugitive world making ...

They are fugitives, the keepers of this online space. They are also historians, women of color, graduate students, and daughters. But here they are fugitives, in the sense that to be authentically ...

Scholar-activist William Santiago-Valles, associate professor of Africana studies at Western Michigan University, will give a talk titled The Importance of Marronage as a Concept in Diaspora Studies ...

“Today in Venezuela, the history and heritage of maroons are celebrated and continued as part of an ongoing revolutionary process.” Maroon Comix, pg. 25. African and Indigenous peoples across the ...

Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as descriptor for traditional medicinal knowledge, ritual practices, and spirituality. Practitioners of Obeah, Myal, and other Afrocentric spiritual ...