Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an
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Black Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball
As the 2019 baseball season is among us and Major League Baseball (MLB) is doing its annual dance with Jackie
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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship
A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States
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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality
In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a
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