Toivo Asheeke

Toivo Asheeke is an activist working toward Black/Latinx freedom in New York City. He is a professor at SUNY Purchase, where he teaches courses on global Black radical history, social/anti-colonial movements, Black Atlantic/slavery studies, and political economy. He is working on his first book, 'The Ball of Liberation Is in Our Hands': Black Consciousness, Black Power and South Africa's Armed Struggle (2022, tentative).

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Detail of "Le marron inconnu," a bronze statue of a Black man escaped from slavery and blowing a conch shell trumpet. Created by Haitian architect and sculptor Albert Mangonès, the statue stands across from the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

230 years later, what can Catholics learn from the Haitian Revolution?

Book review: To fully understand the Haitian Revolution's significance, readers can turn to Trinidadian pan-Africanist Marxist C.L.R. James' magnum opus, The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938.

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