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Anita Gail Jones on Crafting Fiction From Family Heirlooms

Anita Gail Jones on Crafting Fiction From Family Heirlooms

"Objects can carry the heft of memory, uplifting or debilitating, but never passive."

By Anita Gail Jones | July 27, 2023

How World War I Inspired Black Americans to Fight for Dignity at Home

How World War I Inspired Black Americans to Fight for Dignity at Home

Victor Luckerson on the Lead-Up to the Tulsa Race Massacre

By Victor Luckerson | June 1, 2023

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of "Passing" in America

Herb Harris Explores How His Grandparents' Defied Racial Categorization

By Herb Harris | May 3, 2023

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

Mark Whitaker on the Making of a Modern American Revolutionary

By Mark Whitaker | February 13, 2023

How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

Dan Berger on Freedom Summer in the Segregationist Heart of the Deep South

By Dan Berger | January 25, 2023

George McCalman’s Illustrated Black American History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

George McCalman’s Illustrated Black American History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 25, 2023

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Writing Fiction Is a Way to Ensure My Ancestors’ Stories Are Remembered

By Jamila Minnicks | January 23, 2023

After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

By Jacqueline Jones | January 11, 2023

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

By Aja Monet | August 24, 2022

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

Gene Andrew Jarrett on the Unexpected Friendship of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Orville Wright

By Gene Andrew Jarrett | June 27, 2022

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

By David Hackett Fischer | June 2, 2022

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

On the Myths and Truths of the American Revolution

By Bill McKibben | June 1, 2022

The High Stakes of Textbooks: On the Necessity of Complex, Inclusive History Lessons

The High Stakes of Textbooks: On the Necessity of Complex, Inclusive History Lessons

Elizabeth Alexander on Resisting the Siren Song of Triumphal Black History

By Elizabeth Alexander | April 12, 2022

Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives

Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives

Emergence Magazine Podcast">Listen to an Essay by Makshya Tolbert on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | February 28, 2022

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

“We are writing ourselves closer to the ideals purported at the founding.”

By David Wright Faladé | February 15, 2022

On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson">From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | February 14, 2022

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