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Ernest Wilkins and an atom.

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

At least 12 Black chemists and physicists worked as primary researchers on the team that developed the technology behind the atomic bomb.

by Farrell Evans via HISTORY on May 17, 2021

Aerial view of the University of Chicago

Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

by Davarian L. Baldwin via Made By History on April 1, 2021

Black Students Matter demonstrators march through Washington, D.C., June 19, 2020

My Great-Grandmother Ida B. Wells Left A Legacy Of Activism In Education. We Need That Now.

The gap in education equality is holding America back.

by Michelle Duster via Made By History on February 11, 2021

Deserted farm road through corn fields.

Land-Grab Universities

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

by Tristan Ahtone, Robert Lee via High Country News on March 30, 2020

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020

How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”

by Brooke Obie via Shadow and Act on December 14, 2018

A Cool Dip & A Little Dignity

In 1961, two African-American men decided to go swimming at a whites-only Nashville pool. In response, the city closed all its public pools — for three years.

by Erin E. Tocknell via The Bitter Southerner on July 2, 2018

The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

Kente serves as more than a pop of color at college graduations.

by James Padilioni via Black Perspectives on May 22, 2017

Black History Month

What does Black History Month leave out?

by N. D. B. Connolly via BackStory on March 7, 2017

The New Racism

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

by Jason Zengerle via The New Republic on August 10, 2014

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