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Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls’ cast member A.B. Johnson plays the harmonica.

A Peek at the Golden Age of Prison Radio

"Texas Jailhouse Music" explores a time when Texas prisons promoted rehabilitation through a wildly successful radio show.

by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on May 16, 2016

Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

by Ari Berman via The Nation on February 25, 2015

The Weeping Time

A forgotten history of the largest slave auction ever on American soil.

by Kristopher Monroe via The Atlantic on July 10, 2014

C. L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha.

The Man with the Million Dollar Voice

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

by Tony Scherman via The Believer on July 1, 2013

Income tax form

Tax Time

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

The story of Vinegar Hill, a historically African American neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia.

via Field Studio on May 9, 2011

Black and white divided star on the cover of "Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker.

The American Dilemma

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.

by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on July 16, 1992

Lady Soul Singing it Like It Is

In 1968, Time Magazine searched for the elusive definition of "soul."

via TIME on June 28, 1968

Political cartoon of Freedman's Bureau agent separating angry whites from defensive freedmen.

The Freedmen's Bureau

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth: What shall be done with slaves?”

by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Atlantic on March 1, 1901

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