Baltimore - AAIHS

Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and

In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers

Few people passing through Baltimore’s Fell’s Point neighborhood ever step onto the 500 block of South Dallas Street. The narrow

How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks