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Documenting Black Appalachia

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

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

It is important to acknowledge that Black people, wherever they are located in the world, are of African origin because,