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Miriam Jiménez Román (1951-2020) was an Afro-Puerto Rican activist, scholar, editor, author and professor who was a pioneer in the field of Afro-Latin@ studies. Jiménez Román's papers include personal and professional correspondence, contracts, research materials and personal writings, all of which helped to create and define a space for the cultural appreciation of the Afro-Latin@ community. Her family's experience as a working class family that migrated from Puerto Rico to New York helped shape her critique of racism, sexism and classism that persist in this multidimensional world. Jiménez Román contributions to the study of Afro-Latin@ cultures continues to influence the study and greater dialogue surrounding the complex identities of the Afro-Latin@ diaspora. less

Gerald Horne (1949-) is an African American historian, professor, radio host, political commentator, a 1992 California Senate candidate, and the author of Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (1995), as well as over thirty other books. He is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. The collection contains 112 audio recordings and eleven videos relating to Horne's career, including interviews about his scholarship; interviews he conducted as a radio host as well as research for his books; appearances he made as a Senate candidate; and appearances at academic conferences, dating from 1970 to 2003. less