Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates testifies during a hearing on slavery reparations held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 19, 2019.

The Case for Reparations Is Nothing New

...that should pay reparations. When ACRRA, the chief organization set up to demand reparations in the area, was formed, it was created in the presence of Glover’s predecessor in Trans-Africa,...
Kanye West performs Sunday Service during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in 2019

The Gospel According to Kanye West

...its location rotates weekly and is set to go international in 2020. The Origins of Gospel Choirs Gospel music was birthed “in the storefront churches of the North and South”...
Simón Bolívar by José Gil de Castro

Bolívar in Haiti

...They invoked the language of French republicanism. In 1793, colonial authorities were forced to decree abolition. In 1794, the National Convention in Paris ended slavery in all of its colonies....
The first black marines decorated by the famed 2nd Marine Dvision somewhere in the Pacific. (Left to right) Staff Sgt Timerlate Kirven and Cpl. Samuel J. Love, Sr., received Purple Hearts for wounds received in the Battle of Saipan.

Who Were the Montford Point Marines?

...history is helping to remedy that. In the last chapter, “Legacy,” Herman Darden Jr., who joined the Corps in 1943, talks about the military’s progress in his lifetime. “In my...
Whitman at about fifty

Should Walt Whitman Be #Cancelled?

...shall be fathers in their turns, In him the start of populous states and rich republics, Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments. In the essay Jordan...
Austin Community College Fall 2017 Commencement ceremonies on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at the Frank Erwin Center.

Affirmative Action: Foundations and Key Concepts

...adoption occurred in the early 1960s, by colleges in the North that were inspired by the nonviolent civil rights protests occurring in the South. The second wave of adoption emerged...
Yorktown Victory Monument, Colonial National Historic Site, Yorktown, Virginia

Whitewashing American History

...the Revolutionary War site of Yorktown, Williamsburg (capital of Virginia from 1699-1780), and Jamestown (the first permanent English settlement in North America, 1607) via a connecting scenic parkway. The impetus...
Kimpa Vita and a map of Kongo

Did Kongolese Catholicism Lead to Slave Revolutions?

...prayers in the local Kikongo language. In the 1690s, when a large civil war broke out in the duchy she resided in, she dreamt of restoring the Kingdom. She trained...
Employment of Negroes in Agriculture by Earle Richardson

Racial Violence as Impetus for the Great Migration

...keep their labor population in place. When that didn’t work, they raised some wages, and, in some areas, called for a reduction in violence directed at blacks. Many white laborers,...
Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh on the Future of American Journalism

...told? Do you have faith in investigative journalism? I gave a speech in Orlando to a national group called the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). I think they started in...