The Racial Geography of Universities
What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of
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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
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Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation
The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend
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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors
“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of
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Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer
The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died
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