Alaina M. Morgan (Elena Morgan)

Alaina M. Morgan, an academic historian exploring Black and Muslim diasporas, discusses her book Atlantic Crescent. She traces overlapping Black, Afro‑Caribbean, and South Asian Muslim encounters using newspapers and archives. Topics include Muhammad Speaks, transnational figures like Abdul Basim Naeem, Bermuda’s diasporic politics, grassroots drug‑response programs, and how shared anti‑imperial struggles shaped imagined geographies.

Alaina M. Morgan, historian and assistant professor studying Black and Muslim diasporas. She explains the “Atlantic Crescent” linking Black, Afro-Caribbean, and South Asian Muslim encounters. Topics include newspapers as layered archives, transnational figures like Abdul Basi Naim, Nation of Islam internationalism and Malcolm X, and Bermuda as a hub for diasporic circulation and political organizing.

Alaina M. Morgan, assistant professor of history at USC and author of Atlantic Crescent, explores linked Black, Afro-Caribbean, and South Asian Muslim worlds. She traces archival discoveries like Muhammad Speaks. Topics include overlapping diasporic encounters, Moorish Science and Ahmadiyya interactions, Malcolm X’s internationalism, and how these movements circulated into Bermuda’s anti-imperial organizing.