segregation

Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as