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Darold Cuba

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As seen in: The New York Times, ResearchGate, University of Cambridge News, VICE
Covers:  history, technology, marronage, maroons, freedmen settlements, freedom colonies, Black Towns, post emancipation marronage, race, class
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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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Pan-African Decade of Return (PADoR): Reimagining Pan-Africanism beyond Ghana's YoR and the UN DPAD

Pan-African Decade of Return (PADoR): Reimagining Pan-Africanism beyond Ghana's YoR and the UN DPAD

Big movements are afoot to connect the African continent with its diaspora. This co-authored policy essay …

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Indigenous scholar's work informs new Columbia University + Wikipedia Initiatives

Indigenous scholar's work informs new Columbia University + Wikipedia Initiatives

In this reflection on Dr. Lorina Barker's recent lecture at OHMA, Columbia's Wikipedia Fellow, Wikimedian-In-…

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The Importance of Preserving the Histories of Freedmen's Towns

The Importance of Preserving the Histories of Freedmen's Towns

Long before American primetime audiences were introduced to freedom colonies through the ancestral histories …

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Wikimedia to the Rescue? How Wikipedia's Crowdsourcing Model Could Catalyze the Field of Oral His...

Wikimedia to the Rescue? How Wikipedia's Crowdsourcing Model Could Catalyze the Field of Oral His...

Can the Wikimedia platform, tools and model help solve Oral History's biggest problem - transcribing and digi…

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Trauma, Then Triumph: The New York Times College Scholarship Program, 2017

Trauma, Then Triumph: The New York Times College Scholarship Program, 2017

CREDITS: A @GEEKOmni Production •Co-Producers: @DaroldCuba & @DougieDistefano •Co-Directors: @DaroldCuba & …

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RZA Accompanies 'The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'

RZA Accompanies 'The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'

RZA watched the Shaw Brothers' martial arts classic "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin" for the first time on telev…

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By the Numbers: Butting In, and Going On, Trump Dominates

By the Numbers: Butting In, and Going On, Trump Dominates

An earlier version of this article, using a transcript provided by the Federal News Service that was missing …

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Emmett Till, Whose Martyrdom Launched the Civil Rights Movement

Emmett Till, Whose Martyrdom Launched the Civil Rights Movement

Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, on Chicago's South Side and was nicknamed Bobo because of his fu…

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Medgar Evers, Whose Assassination Reverberated Through the Civil Rights Movement

Medgar Evers, Whose Assassination Reverberated Through the Civil Rights Movement

At 17, like many other Americans, Medgar Evers enlisted in the Army during World War II. A star athlete in hi…

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The Year in Motherboard Features: Where Are They Now?

The Year in Motherboard Features: Where Are They Now?

Darold Cuba's 2015 feature, "The Loud Fight Against Silicon Valley's Quiet Racism: How Tech Became A Civil Ri…

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The Congressional Black Caucus Goes to the Valley

The Congressional Black Caucus Goes to the Valley

Image: G.K. Butterfield/Facebook The Congressional Black Caucus is in Silicon Valley this week to meet with c…

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The Loud Fight Against Silicon Valley's Quiet Racism

The Loud Fight Against Silicon Valley's Quiet Racism

Written by Darold Cuba For Hank Williams, an entrepreneur based in New York, building a more diverse Silicon …

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Motherboard: CMD & CNTRL

Motherboard: CMD & CNTRL

In the face of corporate control of the Internet, Tim Wu’s concept of network neutrality has sparked a brewin…

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Why We Want To Believe Things That Are Totally Absurd

Why We Want To Believe Things That Are Totally Absurd

As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, who's the star of this TED talk, has exposed f…

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