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How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made

John Custis IV was in the upper crust of colonial Virginia. The planter and politician turned sixty in 1738, and

In today’s post, Dr. Aaron Pride, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College, interviews renowned scholar of religion Dr. AnneMarie

Throughout the history of Black struggle and the social movements it has fueled, education and the transmission of knowledge have

In today’s post, Kiana M. Knight, managing editor of Black Perspectives and a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Brown

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Jacqueline Dowd Hall’s critical