On May 9, 1950, Eslanda Robeson, anthropologist, journalist, and activist (and wife of Paul Robeson), delivered powerful advocacy at the United Nations for African and African diasporic liberation. Her interventions criticized colonial empires and demanded international accountability for racial oppression. Robeson\’s voice highlighted the interconnected struggles of African Americans, Africans, and Afro-Caribbeans during the early Cold War era and prefigured the later non-aligned movement and global Black solidarity.
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