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Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on

Sunday night’s mishap at the Oscars, which mistakenly gave the award for Best Picture to La La Land, reflects the

On February 26, Hollywood “movers and shakers” will assemble in Los Angeles for the biggest night of the year—the Academy

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.