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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

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

The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s