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The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper

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

January 1, 2017 was the first time since 1959 that Cuba has celebrated a New Year and the anniversary of

On October 15, 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced that its Board of Directors

This piece was originally published in AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association, as “The Promise and Peril of

With undergraduates I recently explored the complexity of thought among several Civil Rights writers and activists. During our conversation, students