Europe – Georgia

Emma Harris (1871-1940)
Emma Harris was a multi-talented African American cultural influencer in Europe, the Russian Empire (later the Soviet Union) as well...
February 6th, 2023

The Afro-Beat in Russia: The Influence of Black Music on Russian Popular Culture, 1890-2002
In the following article, Russian DJ Ivan Tchijevsky describes exclusively for BlackPast.org the long history of black music and black...
July 17th, 2019

C. Steven McGann (1951 – )
C. Steven McGann joined the Foreign Service in 1992 and has since attained the status of Career member, Senior Foreign...
June 17th, 2015

In the Land of Czars and Commissars: African Americans in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia, 1824-2015
In the following essay independent historian Robert Fikes explores the eclectic experiences of African Americans in the world’s largest nation...
June 4th, 2015