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New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie writes: "I return to Du Bois, even as I read more recent work, because he offers a framework that is useful, I think, for

Du Bois helps us look past the ephemera of our politics to focus on what matters most.

Lessons are to be learned from the post-civil war era to the contemporary struggle for liberation and social justice African American History Month Series No. 3 During the period of the enslavement of African people by Britain and the United States, violence was a key instrument in the maintenance of…

Since January 2021, according to an analysis by Education Week, Republican lawmakers in 37 states have introduced dozens of bills to restrict teaching on the subject of race and racism

The suppression and subversion of Black history in favor of an inauthentic rendering of the American past has a long history in and of itself. 

April 19, 2021 • Jay Cephas on “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America” Installation view of “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Robert Gerhardt. IN 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction in Amer...