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Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas

Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant

Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout

Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half

Children at Kosciusko Swimming Pool, Brooklyn, New York, 1970 (Wikimedia Commons) In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, a massacre orchestrated by a white mob against