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
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Desegregation
Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’
In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City
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(Re)locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories
“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the
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What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights
The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a
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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac
It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate
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