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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

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that