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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,

In 1951, William Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress presented a 238-page document to the United Nations accusing the United

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

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