This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

Portuguese trading of enslaved Africans affected two major African powers in very different ways.

De La Soul are known for the effect their use of samples had on their music sales and availability on streaming sites. They’re finally streaming. Why now?

Composed half-a-century ago, The Ballad of Beta-2 was a science-fiction vision of the future that speaks directly to our present.

The West African grass was imported to sustain Caribbean sugar plantations, but it has turned against them, becoming a symbol of resilience and independence.

The Parable books seem different yet familiar, their plots framed by a world shattered by racism, economic inequality, and climate change.

Digitization allows researchers to trace editorial and authorial changes in archival content. Both are central to the study of this famous abolitionist pamphlet.

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One of the most meaningful ways to celebrate the month between September 15 and October 15 may be to lend our attention to verse.

The name of this fourteen-line poetic form comes from the Italian sonetto, meaning "a little sound or song."