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Black Brown and Green Archive 

Black, Brown and Green Voices: Prof.  Marcus Rediker and David Lester  on the their graphic novel on New York's 1741 Afro-Irish Uprising, Revolution by Fire

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: co-author Briana Fitzsimons discusses the landmark new book Black&Irish

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: Prof. Leslie M. Harris renowned historian of the African American experience

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times journalist and NYU professor 

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Black, Brown and Green Voices:
award-winning writer Dennis Lehane

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Black, Brown and Green Voices:
Professor Iver Bernstein 
 

Black, Brown and Green Voices: Prof. Mary Burke

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: Kit de Waal

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: Jude Hughes

Black, Brown and Green Voices:
Prof. Herman D. Farrell III

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Jude Hughes is a tailor in Dublin, where he has lived since 1959. He was a co-founder of Harmony, an anti-racism group in 1980s Dublin. He is also a founder of the Association for Mixed Race Irish. 

Herman D. Farrell, a professor of theatre and Eugene O'Neill scholar was

born in New York and is now based at the University of Kentucky. He has published and presented extensively on O'Neill and is personally interested in the intersections of American, Caribbean and Irish ethnic history.  

Black, Brown and Green Voices:
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

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Black, Brown and Green Voices: Debo P. Adegbile

Debo Patrick Adegbile, Jurist and Commissioner of the United States Civil Rights Commission, is the son of Nigerian and Irish immigrants to New York City. In 2016, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Civil Rights Commission. As a child, he appeared regularly in the popular Sesame Street. 

Black, Brown and Green Voices: Dr. Lara Cassidy

Prof. Touré F. Reed on Ethnic Essentialism 

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Dr. Lara Cassidy is a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin who works on the genetic history of the earliest inhabitants of the island of Ireland. 

Toure F. Reed is a Professor of twentieth-century US and Afro-American History at Illinois State University. he is the author of Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 (UNC Press) and Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism (Verso Books).

James Carroll on "The Politics of White Supremacy: A View from Irish Boston".

James Carroll is an American author, historian, journalist, and former Catholic priest. He has published not only novels, but also books on religion and history. He has received nine honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a National Book awardee. 

Prof. Chanté Mouton Kinyon on “The Ties the Bind: Resistance, Rebellion, and Redemption in UpTight (1968)”.

Chanté Mouton Kinyon is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary research explores transnational Black American literature and culture, with a particular interest in the way in which Black American culture and literature intersects with Irish culture and literature. 

Kim DaCosta: "How the Irish Became Black: Origin Stories, Genealogies and a Usable Past"

Award-winning actor Ruth Negga in conversation with Kim DaCosta and Miriam Nyhan Grey

Miss Universe Ireland (2019) and former NASA Datanaut Fionnghula "Fig" O'Reilly in conversation with Kim DaCosta and Miriam Nyhan Grey

Vice-Chancellor of the University of West Indies Sir Hilary Beckles in conversation

Renowned historian, Professor Christine Kinealy, on Black Women Abolitionists in Ireland

Renowned NYU scholar Professor Nikhil Pal Singh, "Ireland in the Crucible of Race"

Professor Kevin Kenny on The American Irish and Race in the nineteenth century

College Dublin Professor Jane Ohlmeyer on Irishness, Blackness and the Early Modern World

Taoiseach of Ireland, Micheal Martin, opens the Black Irish conference, autumn 2021

Salman Rushdie, in conversation with Miriam Nyhan Grey, on identity

Danielle Philips-Cunningham on Black and Irish women domestic servants in 19th century US

Rev. Herbert Daughtry

Brian Dooley on the Black and Green

Frederick Douglass and Ireland

Professor Christine Kinealy, Frederick Douglass in Ireland

Dedria Humphries Barker

Lenwood Sloan on the Irish and Blackness

Dr. Ebun Joseph on Critical Race Theory and Inequality in the labour market

Black, Brown and Green Voices

Our programs amplify the ways in which people identity as African and Irish descent, especially in North America. We also aim to highlight, especially to American audiences, the diverse nature of Ireland in the twenty first century. 

Contact: miriam@blackbrownandgreen.com

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