CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy
Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past
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Jim Crow
The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality
The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth
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Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas
Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant
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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’
In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City
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How Josephine Baker Challenged Las Vegas Racism
By the mid-twentieth century, Las Vegas’ reputation as the “Mississippi of the West” was well-earned. As Black Americans from the
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