Minstrel shows started in the 1830s and were ingrained in American culture by the 1850s. They usually present Black ...

I started fantasizing about my death when I was a kid. My childhood finale fantasy included no cause, only hordes of mourners ...

Other properties could include the Mississippi River internment camps established after the 1927 Mississippi River Flood or the city of Natchez, Mississippi, after the Civil War. I mustn’t overlook ...

The great apostle of nonviolence believed you should never raise your hand, even in self-defense. He once said that Jews should have gone to their deaths under Hitler’s reign rather than lift a finger ...

Why does everyone think I’m gay? It is a question I asked myself a lot as a child, but not one I’ve cared to ask in my adult years. This is primarily due to personal growth. I now care very little ...

In the ’80s and ’90s, it was the crack epidemic, mass incarceration, and welfare reform—policies that ripped through Black ...

· George Pickett led the infamous and disastrous “Pickett’s Charge” at Gettysburg, a suicidal assault that became a symbol of ...

Brown is the new Black. In the history of America, brown people descended from Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies ...

On July 16, 1949, Norma Padgett falsely accused four Black youth of raping her and assaulting her husband. Ernest Thomas, ...

There’s always an influx of new artists giving music enthusiasts new streaming opportunities. While many fall into obscurity ...

Quiet as it is kept, Black immigrants are the group most likely to face arrest, deportation, and solitary confinement. This ...

Jason Wilson discusses hoodies in his book The Man the Moment Demands. He calls them portable caves and focuses on why Black ...