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W. E. B. Du Bois and Black History Month

The year was 1949. Eighty-one-year-old W. E. B Du Bois was one year removed from his second stint at the

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a man of immeasurable courage and vision. We

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

In his 2010 CD Sophomore Slump, the Jackson, Mississippi-based artist Skipp Coon rapped in the opening track “James,” “From where

Last month, writer Zipporah Gene, of Nigerian descent, set off a firestorm when she accused African Americans of “culturally appropriating”