Race Consciousness - AAIHS

Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John