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Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily