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A Brief History of the “Black Friend”

In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

In early May 2018 news broke that federal officials had lost track of nearly 1,500 children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced

American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”