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Race and Civil Rights Dramas in Hollywood

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring the iconic Sidney Poitier. During the

At a recent press conference President Donald Trump remarked, “nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” This statement was

This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as

Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked

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