“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”

Kaysha Corinealdi
Kaysha Corinealdi is an assistant professor of history at Emerson College. Her research and teaching interests include 20th-century histories of empire, migration, feminism, and Afro-diasporic activism in the Americas. Her most recent work can be found in Black Perspectives, the Washington Post, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her book, Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century, was published by Duke University Press in September 2022.
Thelma King and the Call for Revolution
In 1963, a Panamanian assemblywoman took to Cuban radio to condemn the United States and its control of the Americas.