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Ida B. Wells, Police Violence, and the Legacy of Lynching

The recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota bring to the surface, yet again,

Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The

Today’s guest post is from Paul Harvey, Professor of History, and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado. Dr.

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,