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Black Women, History, and the Democratic Party

On May 30, 2018, Axios published an article announcing, “Black women feel slighted by the Democrats.” The article explains how African

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.

You might be asking: “Was there a Civil Rights Act of 1960?” Yes indeed there was. And it was quite

This one is going to be difficult. I will be heading to Brazil over the winter break to conduct some

At 11:45 p.m. on November 6, 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that “the electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.”