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The Kennan Institute Honors Black History Month

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Book and Dagger

Mon Feb 10

Online

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Monday, February 10, 20254:00pm – 5:30pm

Farm field workers dressed warm while harvesting

Wed Feb 12

In person
Online

US-Mexico Farm Labor Policy Recommendation Launch

Wednesday, February 12, 202510:00am – 12:15pm

Canada Arctic, Nunavut

Thu Feb 13

Online

Northern Opportunities: A Conversation With Canada's Territorial Premiers

Thursday, February 13, 20259:30am – 10:30am

Image_PanamaCanal

Thu Feb 13

In person
Online

The Future of the Panama Canal

Thursday, February 13, 202510:00am – 11:00am

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Posted date/time:February 28, 2023

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The Influence of Black Music on Russian Popular Culture

Posted date/time:February 17, 2021

Duke Ellington, a famous jazz musician, poses with his piano at the KFG Radio Studio.

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The Lumumba University in Moscow: higher education for a Soviet–Third World alliance, 1960–91

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: The celebration of the International Women's Day on March 8, 1972, at the Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University.

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"Soviet Russia and the Negro"

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: Grigory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin, and Claude_McKay, 1923

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Art, Image, and Ideology: The History of Soviet Relations with Africa, Told in Pictures

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: Tiglachin Monument in Addis Ababa

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The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: People reading 'Pravda' newspaper on city street in Moscow

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Meet Yosif Stalin, The Soviet-Born Black American From Kremlin, Virginia

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: Early 1900s Red Square in Moscow

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Soviet Cinema and African Film Making

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: Statue of Ousmane Sembène

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Are the Russians Forging an Empire in Africa?

Posted date/time:February 26, 2020

Image: Reception in honour of participants in the Russia-Africa summit

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