Book Review - AAIHS

The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not

A conversation about history, truth, and the American experience is necessary in these troubled times. The truth is under assault

The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council

In 1911, Richard Greener was introduced to an audience as “‘the first colored graduate of Harvard,’ ‘ex-Consul to Russia,’ and ‘the