African American
August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ teaches the potent legacy of Southern slavery
October 24, 2024How does the indelible stain of slavery reverberate down into the 20th century?
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Cummings wins runoff, will be Communications Workers first African-American president
July 11, 2023Veteran union leader becomes president of a huge, influential, and progressive labor organization
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‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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Honors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021In 1942, Hugh Mulzac became the first African American man of Caribbean descent to captain a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington.
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‘Fearing the Black Body’ uses history to dismantle fat phobia, health inequality
September 2, 2021Strings does a fine job of collecting all of this material for the reader to take in, but her voice gets lost in all the facts and data. At times, 'Fearing the Black Body' reads like...
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