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Covers:  history, technology, marronage, maroons, freedmen settlements, freedom colonies, Black Towns, post emancipation marronage, race, class

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Darold Cuba’s Journalist Portfolio

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Naming the Domain: Blackdom, New Mexico & Concentric Clanship Networks of Freedom Colony Families

Naming the Domain: Blackdom, New Mexico & Concentric Clanship Networks of Freedom Colony Families

“Naming the Domain” interprets the name Blackdom as an act of emancipatory place-making: a public claim to la…

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Landed Blackness: Post-emancipation marronage and Black autonomy

Landed Blackness: Post-emancipation marronage and Black autonomy

“Landed Blackness” argues that post-emancipation freedom colonies were intentional political projects through…

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From Ruin to Reparative Governance: Rosewell, International Law & the Declaration of Racialized...

From Ruin to Reparative Governance: Rosewell, International Law & the Declaration of Racialized...

This essay connects international recognition of racialized chattel slavery as a crime against humanity with …

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Harvest as Marronage: Shankleville's Tx Purple Hull Pea Fest & Maroon Legacies of Freedom Colonies

Harvest as Marronage: Shankleville's Tx Purple Hull Pea Fest & Maroon Legacies of Freedom Colonies

This chapter in the book, Many Ways To Think About Harvest, examines the Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival as a…

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The Disruptive Possibilities of the Oral Narrative.

The Disruptive Possibilities of the Oral Narrative.

“The Disruptive Possibilities of the Oral Narrative” examines oral history as a method for challenging archiv…

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A River Road’s Clipper Family Descendant Documenting, Preserving, Conserving and Restoring

A River Road’s Clipper Family Descendant Documenting, Preserving, Conserving and Restoring

For "The Bridge That Carried Us Over" exhibit - a treatise on the impact of River Road/Graysville founding fa…

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Landed Blackness: Post-emancipation marronage and Black autonomy

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By Darold Cuba
| University of Cambridge News
Family outside a home in Blackdom, New Mexico, c. 1910. Founded in 1901, Blackdom grew into a thriving farming community. Credit: Public domain image. Antioch Baptist Church, established in 1922, is the only surviving public structure from the Piney Swamp freedmen community in Gloucester, Virginia. Credit: Historic Antioch Church. Source: https://antiochgloucester.org/ Three pillars of USPostEM: land, kinship, and institutions as the basis of Black self-determination.
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The Importance of Preserving the Histories of Freedmen's Towns

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By Erika L. Thompson, Darold Cuba, Britt Salvesen
| hcponline.org
Long before American primetime audiences were introduced to freedom colonies through the ancestral histories of celebrities like Michael Strahan in Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ series, Finding Your Roots, freedom colonies around the world have been documenting, preserving, and sharing their histories—including Houston’s own Freedmen’s Town, also known as The Fourth Ward.
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RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’

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By Darold Cuba
| The New York Times Verified
RZA watched the Shaw Brothers’ martial arts classic “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” for the first time on television when he was 12 years old. Two years later, he saw the 1978 movie on the big screen “in a seedy Times Square theater on 42nd Street,” he recalled. He went with his cousin Russell Tyrone Jones, who would grow up to become the rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Photographer for my middle school’s yearbook

Have you ever used a typewriter?

to try it out, just to feel what it was like as my elders regaled us with stories of using them while growing up...

How is social media changing news?

it democratizes access and deconstructs gateholder narratives