The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black history
Cuba, Antiracism, and a New Revolution
January 1, 2017 was the first time since 1959 that Cuba has celebrated a New Year and the anniversary of
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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in
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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas
James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and
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The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”
Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington
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