African-American history
A true American horror story: ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’
October 31, 2024The new book details how, before the turn toward mass incarceration in the 1970s, Black people in disproportionate numbers were institutionalized in mental hospitals, where they were assigned to forced labor regimes and other kinds of...
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‘American Coup: Wilmington 1898’ – The racist takeover of a North Carolina town
October 15, 2024A new PBS documentary rescues a story from history and provides a warning for today.
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Labor and civil rights icon, Bill Lucy, dies at 90
September 30, 2024He helped assemble and lead the famous “I Am a Man” unionization drive in Memphis in 1968.
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‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all
September 9, 2024The genocide in Gaza had this reviewer looking back to the mass murder of innocents in U.S. history.
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‘How It’s Gon’ Be’: A young Black artist starts figuring it out
September 29, 2023LOS ANGELES — “I wanted to capture the heart of a young artist trying to figure out where he fits in,” playwright JuCoby Johnson explains. “These characters each have a deep love for one another that...
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