Zora Neale Hurston

A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.

'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'

The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.

From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?

Beneath the popular folk song, “Swannanoa Tunnel” and the railroad tracks that run through Western North Carolina is a story of blood, greed, and obfuscation.

Cartoons have often been considered exempt from the country’s prejudices. In fact, they form a genre built on the marble and mud of racial signification.

So many people taught us to be more than the hatred heaped upon us.

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."

In the Jim Crow South, the Alabama Communist Party distinguished itself as a champion of racial and economic justice.

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

The discovery carries intense, personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship's survivors.

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.