Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

On January 1, 1923, Rosewood, Florida, was a thriving town of mostly African American residents. Seven days later, it was gone, burned to the ground by a white mob.

The groundbreaking team at Milestone Comics infused Static, Hardware and their other creations with Afrocentric dynamism, paving the way for T’Challa’s mainstream success.

This non-exhaustive list of readings in African American Studies highlights the vibrant history of the discipline and introduces the field.

Dorothy Porter, a Black woman pioneer in library and information science, created an archive that structured a new field.