Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons
by Ana Lucia Araujo,...
A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...
One of the first dilemmas that Black people face is whether to let strangers touch their hair – and under what circumstances. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
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The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.
− an art historian explains
by Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross
The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in...
A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South. Corbis via Getty Images
by Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
As the United States...
Stevie Wonder. Getty Images
by Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia
There’s a long history of African Americans settling in Ghana or keeping in close contact with the...
Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Nicole Jeanine Johnson to discuss how, in his first year, he made specific and intentional investments in Chicago's historically...
