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The Complexities of Race, Class, and Gender on Television

Following the recent fallout over Roseanne Barr’s racist comments, ABC introduced a spinoff show, The Conners, in an attempt to

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light In 1992, Rufus Thomas was interviewed by

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many

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

The FX series Pose premiered in June 2018 to rave reviews for its historic depiction of the New York City house and