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The Unfinished Story of Emmett Till’s Final Journey

Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.
by Alexandra Marvar via Gen on October 8, 2020

James E. Hinton’s Unseen Films Reframe the Black Power Movement

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.
via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020
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Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote

Without justice for all, none of us are free.
by Bill Russell via The Players' Tribune on September 14, 2020

The Problem in the Classroom

Any true reckoning with racism must include our schools.
by Jon Hale via The American Scholar on July 30, 2020
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Doing Black History

Exploring the ways that African American history has been learned and taught in schools, museums, and popular culture.

Will We Still Be American After Democracy Dies?

Is being "political" the central force in our identities?
by Johann N. Neem via Public Seminar on July 7, 2020

Why We’ll Never Stop Arguing About Hamilton

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.
by Aja Romano via Vox on July 3, 2020
6 Black Americans celebrating Juneteenth in 1900.

Reunion, Juneteenth and the Meaning of the Civil War

What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on June 16, 2020
Light reveals the faces three Black people expressing confidence and joy.

Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.

So many people taught us to be more than the hatred heaped upon us.
by Imani Perry via The Atlantic on June 15, 2020
A man plowing with a mule

Revisiting “Forty Acres and a Mule”

The backstory to the backstory of America’s mythic promise.
by Bennett Parten via We're History on June 15, 2020
Arturo Schomburg

How America Rediscovered a Cookbook From the Harlem Renaissance

Arturo Schomburg's work is still inspiring researchers and cooks today.
by Mayukh Sen via Atlas Obscura on May 1, 2020
A statue depicting a traveler of the Great Migration.

It’s OK If the Story of Black Americans Begins Right Here on This Land

America should be ashamed of slavery, but black Americans do not bear the burden of shame.
by Natalie Y. Moore via Chicago Sun-Times on November 21, 2019

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 29, 2019
A map of the Kingdom of the Happy Land.

A Black Kingdom in Postbellum Appalachia

The Kingdom of the Happy Land represents just one of many Black placemaking efforts in Appalachia. We must not forget it.
by Danielle Dulken via Scalawag on September 9, 2019

The Assassin Next Door

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting MLK, Jr., intersected at a corner of East Hollywood.
by Hector Tobar via The New Yorker on July 22, 2019

Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on May 20, 2019
Still from a video game animation of a Black cowboy aiming a pistol at another.

‘Old Town Road’ and the History of Black Cowboys in America

A songwriter-historian weighs in on the controversy over Lil Nas X’s country-trap hit.
by Dom Flemons, Jonathan Bernstein via Rolling Stone on April 5, 2019

In Search of George Washington Carver’s True Legacy

The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts.
by Rachel Kaufman via Smithsonian on February 21, 2019

This, Too, Was History

The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
by Peter C. Baker via The Point on January 14, 2019
Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018

The Forgotten Story of Pure Hell, America’s First Black Punk Band

The four-piece lived with the New York Dolls and played with Sid Vicious, but they’ve been largely written out of cultural history.
by Cassidy George via Dazed on August 8, 2018
Amy Ashwood, Marcus Garvey's first wife, in Ghana in the 1940s.

The Hidden History of Black Nationalist Women's Political Activism

Contrary to popular conceptions, women were also instrumental to the spread and articulation of black nationalism.
by Keisha N. Blain via The Conversation on January 30, 2018

Why Students Are Ignorant About The Civil Rights Movement

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.
by Sierra Mannie via The Hechinger Report on October 1, 2017
Nixon taking the oath of office.

Americans Aren't Just Divided Politically, They're Divided Over History Too

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.
by Jill Lepore, Rachel Martin via NPR on May 23, 2017

The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys

One in four cowboys was black. So why aren’t they more present in popular culture?
by Katie Nodjimbadem via Smithsonian on February 13, 2017

Black History Is American History

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.
by David Boaz via Cato Institute on February 11, 2015
A woman named Mary Bowser.

The Spy Photo That Fooled NPR, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, and Me

A story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past, and who we are today.
by Lois Leveen via The Atlantic on June 27, 2013

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