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Dorothy Height and the Roots of a Black Intellectual-Activist

Dorothy I. Height was a model Black intellectual-activist. She challenged racism and sexism at an early age, setting the stage for a

The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver