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Melba Newsome

Melba Newsome is a journalist, writer and editor whose work has appeared in Scientific American, Newsweek and Bloomberg, among others.

Stories from this author

The 17th-century fort at Portobelo, built by enslaved laborers, overlooks the bay area where some of the earliest maroons settled after gaining their freedom.

A New Discovery Puts Panama as the Site of the First Successful Slave Rebellion

Deep in the archives, a historian rescues the tale of brave maroons