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The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

This interview was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The interviewer, Salamishah Tillet is an

On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

As nine beautiful black minds are laid to rest and Confederate flags are symbolically ripped down across the nation, the

This is a guest post by Emily England, a senior history and anthropology double major with a museum studies minor