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The Black Freedom Struggle, Healthcare Activism, and the Affordable Care Act

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

There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the

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

On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the presidential inauguration, thousands of women will descend on the nation’s capital