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The Problem with Baltimore
In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods ...
A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival
On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned ...
The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved ...
My Journey to Becoming a Historian of Black Women’s Activism
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me." My journey to becoming ...