![15 Minute History – Afro-Indigenous Histories of the US](https://notevenpast.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Episode-134-Austins-Black-History-1.png)
Guest: Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA
Host: Alina Scott, PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin
Afro-Indigenous histories are central to the history of the United States, tribal sovereignty, and civil rights. Today, Dr. Kyle Mays (Saginaw Chippewa) author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States and Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America, discusses the intersections of Black and Indigenous history through the lens of individuals whose lives existed at those intersections.