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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took