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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

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. A hundred different organized groups have urged the

Today’s post features Robert Greene II’s, senior editor of Black Perspectives, interview of Robin Brooks on her new book, Class

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

What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a