The Privileged and Impoverished Life of Phillis Wheatley
The first African American of either gender to publish a book of poetry has remained a controversial figure in the black community.
African Americans
Black Panther and Double-Consciousness
Double identity, present in both Marvel’s Black Panther and in the critical race theory of double-consciousness, enables black American viewers to see their two identities played out on screen.
The First Civil Rights Monument
The nation’s first civil rights monument is a mural portraying the interracial audience at Marion Anderson’s famed Freedom Concert of 1939 on the Washington Mall.
Why Paul Robeson Was Labelled a Psychopath
The singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson had a spectacular rise and then a stunning fall brought on by the Cold War’s pathologizing of dissent.
10 Poems by African-American Poets
Poems by African-American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Young, and more.
Frederick Douglass’s Feud Over Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Journalist, physician, and committed black nationalist Martin Delany took Frederick Douglass to task over, among other things, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
The People’s Grocery Lynching, Memphis, Tennessee
On March 2, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, a racially charged mob grew out of a fight between a black and a white youth near People’s Grocery.
Bringing Universal Education to the South
2018 marks the 150th anniversary of a number of constitutional conventions in Southern states during Reconstruction. One lasting achievement was creating universal education systems.
Emma Amos’s Family Romance
How does an African-American, Southern, female artist make a place…
Black Organizing and White Violence
One hundred years ago, the U.S. entered World War I….
