From a 1600 explorer to a 21st century activist, historians Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross’ break down the ways Black women have shaped the nation.
The Trump administration, along with The National Archives, poses a threat “to our nation’s capacity to protect and learn from history,” says Columbia professor Dr. Matthew Connelly.
The civil rights organization has put Amazon, Google, AudioBooks and Barnes & Noble on blast for not pulling racist materials from their digital shelves.
The extensive project that marked the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia will be expanded into several books, including a graphic novel.
Host Kimberlé Crenshaw: “It wasn’t the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution nor the Stars and Stripes that gave birth to America; it was the Black vagina that laid the golden egg.”
Harlem South: A View Through the Lens will feature photographs from Roberts, who documented Black lives in the 1920s and 1930s, plus performances inspired by his work.
“Thousands of abandoned uranium mines dot the Western landscape, hundreds on the Navajo Nation alone, continuing to expose families to the ill effects of radiation, including kidney failure and cancer.”
After years of working to preserve the place where the iconic singer discovered music, a coalition of organizations has raised enough money to restore the home.
