Hope, Faith, and Metaphor in African American History
In November 2022, the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while encouraging his fellow
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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment
In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the …
Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history, …
Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America
In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple …
