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Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

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

In a recent interview with Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Commission, stated, “What we do in the memorial