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Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians, a popular jazz orchestra from Chicago.

Rhythm Night Club Fire: Tragedy Devastated Young Black Natchez

In April 1940, Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians continued to play to calm the crowd as the Natchez Rhythm Night Club burned.
by Karen L. Cox via Mississippi Free Press on April 21, 2023
Black soldiers in battle.

Double V: Military Racism

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.
by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on February 22, 2023
Graph drawn by W.E.B. Du Bois displaying the income and expenditure of Black American families in Atlanta.

How W.E.B. Du Bois Disrupted America’s Dominance at the World’s Fair

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.
by Susannah Gardiner via Smithsonian on February 1, 2023
Jalyn Hall (left) as Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler (right) as Mamie Till Bradley in the movie Till.

Two Recent Movies Help Us Connect the Dots Between Jim Crow and Fascism

With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.
by Soraya Nadia McDonald via Andscape on November 22, 2022
Black and white photo of Ishmael Reed as a child in Willert Park Courts, 1943.

The Buffalo I Knew

The city is at a crossroads. Which path will it take?
by Ishmael Reed via New York Review of Books on July 9, 2022
Curt Flood of the Saint Louis Cardinals, May 1966. Flood challenged Major League Baseball’s “reserve clause” barring players from changing teams.

A People’s History of Baseball

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.
by Peter Dreier, Michael Arria via Jacobin on May 25, 2022
Illustration of T. Thomas Fortune

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on April 19, 2022
Scene from from 'The Gilded Age' in which a wealthy white woman and an African American woman walk in the street, with a stagecoach behind them.

The True History Behind HBO's 'The Gilded Age'

Julian Fellowes' new series dramatizes the late 19th-century clash between New York City's old and new monied elite.
by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Smithsonian on January 20, 2022
Black and white photograph of Lorraine Hansberry smoking a cigarette.

The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry

She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?
by Blair McClendon via The New Yorker on January 17, 2022
Sly Stone performing in front of crowd

What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.
by David Hajdu via The Nation on July 29, 2021
Historical photo of a group of black men and women

The United States' First Civil Rights Movement

A new history charts the radical agitation around Black rights and freedom back to the early nineteenth century. 
by Kellie Carter Jackson via The Nation on June 16, 2021
John Marshall Harlan and Robert James Harlan

The Black Hero Behind One of the Greatest Supreme Court Justices

John Marshall Harlan's relationship with an enslaved man who grew up in his home showed how respect could transcend barriers and point a path to freedom.
by Peter S. Canellos via Politico Magazine on June 6, 2021
Illustration of black calvary officers with a Native American, circa 1874

Is This Land Made for You and Me?

How African Americans came to Indian Territory after the Civil War.
by Alaina E. Roberts via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 26, 2021
Anthony Brinson, right, talks to a resident in Detroit on May 4 as part of a door-to-door effort to encourage people in the majority-Black city to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. (Paul Sancya/AP)
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Black Americans Have Always Understood Science as a Tool in Their Freedom Struggle

Fixating on Black vaccine skepticism obscures a rich history of Black medical and scientific innovation.
by Eric Herschthal via Made by History on May 18, 2021
Illustration of James McCune Smith, the African Free School #2, and the University of Glasgow

America's First Black Physician Sought to Heal a Nation's Persistent Illness

An activist, writer, doctor and intellectual, James McCune Smith, born enslaved, directed his talents to the eradication of slavery.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on February 26, 2021
Two people being tarred and feathered

The Hidden Story of When Two Black College Students Were Tarred and Feathered

In the course of research about the Red Summer of 1919, a historian in Maine uncovers a disturbing event that took place on her own campus.
by Karen Sieber via The Conversation on February 8, 2021
Three panels of a graphic depicting Soul city. Images include two people walking in a street, people playing golf, and the inside of a mall

The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?
by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on February 1, 2021
Wilmington coup marker

We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It.

The 1898 Wilmington insurrection showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”
by Edwin Rios via Mother Jones on January 22, 2021
A group of White KC Star reporters sitting at desks with paper

The Truth in Black and White: An Apology From the Kansas City Star

Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
by Mike Fannin via Kansas City Star on December 20, 2020
George Padmore
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Black Americans in the Popular Front Against Fascism

The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.
by Mohammed Elnaiem via JSTOR Daily on November 12, 2020
Crowd outside New York theater waiting for Macbeth production, 1936.

"The Play That Electrified Harlem"

Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Federal Theatre Project
by Paul Allen Sommerfeld via Library of Congress on September 28, 2020
Fugitive slaves riding on horseback.

The Black Collectors Who Championed African-American Art during the U.S. Civil War

Dorsey and Thomas amassed important collections at a time when the future of chattel slavery and Black life hung in the balance of a national quarrel.
by Jordan McDonald via Artsy on August 11, 2020

Standing on the Crater of a Volcano

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.
by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on July 27, 2020

The US Suffragette Movement Tried to Leave Out Black Women. They Showed Up Anyway

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.
by Martha S. Jones via The Guardian on July 7, 2020
A man adjusts a protest sign at the base of the Confederate memorial known as the “Lost Cause” in Decatur, Ga.
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Removing Lost Cause Monuments Is The First Step in Dismantling White Supremacy

African American activists have long coupled these efforts with fighting against racist laws and racial violence.
by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders via Made by History on June 19, 2020
Lithograph of a New York City street in 1830, bustling with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages.

The Black New Yorker Who Led the Charge Against Police Violence in the 1830s

David Ruggles' fight against the "kidnapping club" in the 1830s shows that police violence has been part of America's DNA from its earliest days.
by Jonathan Daniel Wells via Made By History on June 17, 2020

Why the Confederate Flag Flew During World War II

As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.
by Matt Delmont via The Atlantic on June 14, 2020
White state militia man with rifle confronting a Black man in a U.S. military uniform, while others look on.

How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities

"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Anna North via Vox on June 6, 2020

Historical Insights on COVID-19, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities

Illuminating a path forward.
by Lakshmi Krishnan, S. Michelle Ogunwole, Lisa A. Cooper via Annals Of Internal Medicine on June 5, 2020

Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.
by Karen L. Cox via CNN on June 1, 2020
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