The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Haiti’s role in the birth of Black Internationalism in the United States in the early nineteenth century. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In Fear of a Black Republic (University of Illinois Press, 2022), Professor Alexander chronicles how Haiti’s […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Black Americans fighting World War II—at home and overseas. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the […]