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Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. In burning through the old forests of assimilationist ideas,

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. In his eloquent and moving eulogy for Malcolm X,