I sat down with Maimouna Dieye, program manager at African Communities Together (ACT), earlier this week to hear her thoughts on my historical research project on African migration into Harlem. At ACT, Maimouna works on the organization’s language access and hair braiding initiatives within the African community. She leads the language access program which recruits…
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The Organizational Landscape of Research on African Migration
For the past few weeks, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time researching the roots of African migration in New York City focusing on the colonial period in New York until the Harlem Renaissance. I have had the privilege to use the resources provided by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research…
