Life Lessons from Georgetown’s Basketball Coach John Thompson
John Thompson Jr. often said, “I tell everyone I speak two languages fluently—English and profanity.” He used language and stories
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Book Review
On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax
We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,
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The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery
In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery
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Black Soldiers and the Civil War
Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African American men to enlist in the Union army in 1863, Alexander Thomas Augusta
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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has intensified scrutiny of racial health inequities in the
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