Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion
Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events
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Resistance
Policing Black Freedom
*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community
On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
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Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops
In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black
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Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America
What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?
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