Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the...
Race and Racism
Early Vikings wouldn’t understand nationalism – the secret to their success was to embrace other cultures. The...
Howard Thurman, a mentor to MLK, first met Gandhi during a visit to India in 1936. He...
Anti-Apartheid protest in the 1980s are mere snapshots of time in the long journey towards equality, paved...
The first separate black church in Newport was the Union Colored Church and Society The society is...
Convict labor at the State Lime Grinding Plant, Virginia / From Virginia; Its Agricultural and Industrial Resources, 1914...
A Soviet anti-racism stamp from 1960 features a black child in typical blackface imagery / Wikimedia Commons...
Rethinking his initial impressions after being fed “a diet of Gandhi hagiographies”. By Dr. Arica L. Coleman...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera...
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson,...
This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured, and...
Pitcher (Oinochoe) in the Form of the Head of an African, about 510 B.C., attributed to Class...
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?...
By Dr. Katherine Mellon Charron Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Introduction Segregation contradicts what...
A system built on profit did not spare the young; children were captured, sold, and exploited, their...
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back...
Linda Brown Smith, right, and her two children in their Topeka, KS home 1974. AP While Linda Brown...
A review of Theodore Vial’s Affiliate disclosure: Amazon links on this site are paid links. As an Amazon Associate...
Detail from “How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs,” Time magazine, December 22, 1941 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 25), p....
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , chats with African-Americans during a door-to-door campaign in 1964. AP Photo/JAB By...
Rev. William J. Barber speaks to the crowd gathered at Pullen Baptist Memorial Church in Raleigh, North...
Belgian Jewish star. (Photo by DRG-fan, Wikimedia Commons) Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his...