Implicit Bias and American History
In the first presidential debate, Lester Holt asked Hilary Clinton to expand on prior comments regarding police violence: “Do you
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Slavery
America’s Enslaved Dead
On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in
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Reflections on Race, Diaspora, and Nation
“People of African descent, wherever they reside, should always be mindful that national struggles can never be disentangled from diasporic
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Slavery, Migration, and Narratives of the Black Pacific
In 1803, on a small tropical island surrounded by beautiful oceans and relentless sugar plantations, a baby was born. The
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Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation
I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the
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