On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018
I first met Sterling Stuckey in Chicago fifty-five years ago. In the Spring of 1963, Sterling and a group of high school teachers and
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‘Birthright Citizens’: A New Book on the History of Race and Rights
*This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles from this year. We begin with this
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A Brief History of the “Black Friend”
In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes
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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement
More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered
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