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@maronlakot.bsky.social

I'm not Gullah-Geechee but as a Creole from the Gulf Coast I certainly feel a connection to Gullah-Geechee people. Their homeland even resembles my homeland. I'd love to do an EXTENDED visit to their lands. I feel like it'd be different yet still feel like home 😊.
#africandiaspora

November 30, 2024 at 1:19 AM

Voetnoot -Mark Ponte

@voetnoot.bsky.social

I love showing original documents, especially documents about Amsterdam’s Black Community in the 17th century. #amsterdam750 #africandiaspora

October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Benjamin Wendorf

@benjaminwendorf.bsky.social

Can't tell you how exciting I am to see this in print, having seen some of the work that's gone into it. Believe me when I say @maryhicks.bsky.social's first book is going to be a fantastic contribution to #AtlanticWorld, #AfricanHistory, and #AfricanDiaspora #history. #BlackHistory

Cover of Mary E. Hick's new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery.

November 13, 2024 at 1:20 AM

Just Security

@justsecurity.org

Emmanuel Osayande argues that litigants from Africa are actively shaping doctrine via strategic court engagement during emergencies, and developing a jurisprudential toolkit forged in crisis but designed to outlast it:

www.justsecurity.org/127347/afric...

#Africa #AfricanDiaspora #ICJ

Africa’s ICJ Engagement is Rewriting International Law Playbook

Litigants from Africa and the African diaspora are doing more than “using” courts during emergencies. They are actively shaping doctrine.

www.justsecurity.org

January 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM

Lise M. Dyckman

@lisedyckman.bsky.social

🌱 Starting thread for seed sources for heirloom varieties developed by African-Americans - please add.

Roughwood Seeds www.williamwoysweaverepicurewithhoe.com/roughwood-se...

Truelove seeds trueloveseeds.com/collections/...

Sistah Seeds sistahseeds.com

#Gardening #AfricanDiaspora #BlackHistory

Roughwood Seeds | William Woys Weaver

www.williamwoysweaverepicurewithhoe.com

February 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM

BlerdAI Senpai

@retroaisenpai.bsky.social

Afrofuturist Majesty: A Kwanzaa Voyage

#ai #aiart #animeai #digitalart #aiwoman #blackwoman #AIArtCommunity #blerd #blacksky #blerdsky #blerdgirl #generativeart #africandiaspora #blackanimesky #generativeai #outerspace #cosmos #afrofuturistic #kwanzaa #africantraditions #otakunoirsky #scifi

December 27, 2024 at 12:20 AM

Maxie Baulla

@krystalbijoux.bsky.social

Now available on KrystalBijoux.com!
I Met Her and Yes She Is celebrates the #divine in #Blackwomen, #thems & #femmes of the #AfricanDiaspora. Great gift for yourself or members of this community!
#fashionsky #handmadejewelry #jewelry #maker #art
#jewelryMaking #handcrafted #BlackOwnedBusiness

April 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM

Maroon of the Coast (he/him)

@maronlakot.bsky.social

I guess I could do an intro!
I'm Louisiana Creole, African American, Jamaican, polyglot & polyamorous. I follow Voodoo & Hoodoo. I like to study African & African diaspora subjects. I typically share Afro centered foodways, music, spirituality & history.
#voodoosky
#hoodoosky
#africandiaspora

Purple book by author Gwendolyn Midlo Hall entitled "Africans in Colonial Louisiana".

Poster from 1996 Jazz and Heritage Festival depicting 2 figures playing drums in Congo Square while silhouettes of other people stand behind them.

Top view of a Creole rice dish in a black pot known as jambalaya. In the pot are visible portions of rice, sausage & shrimp.

Art from the late 1800s depicting a Black Creole woman wearing white & purple wit a basket of "cala" on top of her head. She's standing on the sidewalk next to an orange wall & a green door. This is likely in downtown New Orleans. "Cala" is a type of rice fritter derived from rice fritters of West Africa.

November 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM

The Wild Hunt News

@thewildhunt.bsky.social

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement escalates its enforcement actions, TWH has received reports that botánicas, specialty stores that serve African Diasporic Religions, have been targeted.

wildhunt.org/2026/01/comm...

#pagan #santeria #botanica #africandiaspora #ice #lukumi #racism #reneegood

Community Reports Link ICE Activity to Near Botánicas Across the U.S - News, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, U.S.

Witchcraft & Pagan News - As Immigration and Customs Enforcement escalates its enforcement actions, TWH has received reports that botánicas, specialty stores that serve African Diasporic Religions, ha...

wildhunt.org

January 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM

Maroon of the Coast (he/him)

@maronlakot.bsky.social

Mo té séyé kwi "tigadegena" pou dézyèmm fwa. M'ap séyé kwi manj mô zansèt Bamana-yé té kwi.

I tried to cook "tigadegena" for a 2nd time. I'm trying to cook food that my Bambara ancestors cooked.
#gombosky
#creole
#africandiaspora
#sahel
#mali
#kblfsky
#blacksky

January 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM

Deby

@farafinmuso.blacksky.app

Retention of Wolof. The Wolof word for “understand” or “hear” is degg. Degg nga? = You dig?

#AfricanDiaspora #BlackAtlantic #BlackPanther

September 25, 2026 at 8:52 AM

R Afubera Fox

@rafuberafox.bsky.social

#Repost @kblikesart
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reflecting on the work of Mark Steven Greenfield 👼🏾

sanctifying our icons ✨

@dawggie51 🎨

#art #blackart #iconography #saints #africandiaspora

September 22, 2026 at 4:55 AM

James Patterson, MFA, BFA

@jamespatterson.bsky.social

🌟Gold Goddesses✨ #art #artist #painting #painter #gold #goddess #golden #blackart #blackartist #watercolor #acrylicpainting #markers #illustration #panafrican #africandiaspora

January 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM

Go Birds!💚🦅

@okoyessmile.bsky.social

#Odunde #Odunde2025 50th Anniversary of the Odunde Street Festival in #Philly 🥰 #BlackSky #AfricanDiaspora

June 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Krystal Bijoux Jewelry

@kbjewelry.bsky.social

Now available on KrystalBijoux.com!
I Met Her and Yes She Is celebrates the #divine in #Blackwomen, #thems & #femmes of the #AfricanDiaspora. Great gift for yourself or members of this community!
#fashionsky #handmadejewelry #jewelry #maker #art
#jewelryMaking #handcrafted #BlackOwnedBusiness

April 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM

African and Black Diaspora Journal

@abdjournal.bsky.social

If you work on the African diaspora, migration, transnationalism, racialisation and the experience of Black people and people of African descent, consider submitting your research for publication in our journal. #africandiaspora #transnationalism

Submit here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rab...

November 27, 2024 at 1:50 PM

Dr. Rihana S Mason

@drrihana.bsky.social

Black history month begins tomorrow. Thank you Carter G Woodson for establishing Negro History Week in 1926. Our collective history is what makes us great ! #bhm #blackexcellence #africandiaspora #heritage #history

February 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM

Maroon of the Coast (he/him)

@maronlakot.bsky.social

"Katherine Dunham presents Drum Rhythms of Haiti, Cuba, Brazil the Singing Gods" is an album that I play heavily. I feel like she picked those 3 countries because of all countries in the Americas they're the most overtly African.
#africandiaspora
#africanspirituality
#blacksky

Red and tan album depicting palm trees and drums as well as a man's face in the right side.

November 23, 2024 at 8:54 PM

Trump Watch 👀

@trumpwatch.bsky.social

@repilhan.bsky.social
made history as the first Somali-American EVER elected to Congress — a milestone for the #AfricanDiaspora and a reminder that immigrants build this country every damn day.

She’s lived rent-free in Trump head #Trailblazer with 70% approval in MN-05, the highest in Congress.