How Public Artists Are Exploring the History of Segregation in Baltimore
How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks
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Jim Crow
The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces
The accurate accusation of tone-deafness has been circulating to frame the now-defunct Pepsi ad staring Kendall Jenner. For those who
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Capturing the Spirit of Black Pittsburgh: A Review of “Fences”
Just after Christmas, I went to see “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. I went with
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Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward
In today’s guest post, Stephen G. Hall interviews Jason Morgan Ward about his new book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and
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Mob Economics and Lynching Narratives
This is a guest post by Jason Morgan Ward, an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His new
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