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The Love Between Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks

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

As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and

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