https://www.blackhistoryconversations.com/rss/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:22:44 GMT https://www.blackhistoryconversations.comnews/ireland-has-yet-to-come-to-terms-with-its-imperial-past-25-mar-2021 https://www.blackhistoryconversations.comnews/ireland-has-yet-to-come-to-terms-with-its-imperial-past-25-mar-2021 Some celebrate and some excoriate connections with the British Empire In July 2019 Boris Johnson asked why Leo Varadkar isn’t “called Murphy like all the rest of them”. This ethnocentricity has a long history in an Ireland that for centuries was a laboratory for empire, where racist ideologies were formulated and then exported around the rest of the British empire. As we a Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:32:26 GMT https://www.blackhistoryconversations.comnews/telling-the-story-of-negro-cloth-and-welsh-plains-24-mar-2021 https://www.blackhistoryconversations.comnews/telling-the-story-of-negro-cloth-and-welsh-plains-24-mar-2021 Professor Chris Evans, author of "Slave Wales: Wales and Atlantic Slavery 1660 - 1850": In the eighteenth century Wales was notable for producing a coarse woollen fabric from which clothes for enslaved workers in the New World were fashioned. This was ‘Negro Cloth’, a drab material that is little remembered today. Yet it was important. ‘Who would believe’, aske Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:10:43 GMT https://www.blackhistoryconversations.comnews/the-colour-burden-and-the-african-response-the-nigerian-example-of-challenging-racism-26-feb-20 https://www.blackhistoryconversations.comnews/the-colour-burden-and-the-african-response-the-nigerian-example-of-challenging-racism-26-feb-20 Introduction Commonalities and variations exist in the experiences of continental Africans with racism. The same is true of their responses to the problem. All African societies were affected by one or more of the three major external trades in slaves: trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, and the Arab slave trade in East Africa. With the exception of Ethiopia, all African societies experienced coloni