Tiya Miles

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.

On the importance of material ownership in the context of Black history.

When the river freezes, lives change.

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.