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A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

In the hot summer of 1860, Americans confronted an urgent refugee crisis. Over 1,400 young and destitute Africans, seized by

In 1986, African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote of her life-long friend Langston Hughes: “‘WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer.

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

The highly contested executive order that sought to deny citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States has