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‘He’d only have to show proof of life once in a while’: Joe Biden’s advisors hid his decline – and the media didn’t dig...

Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu via Getty Images by Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University Last week, President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into “who ran the United States while President...

Dr. Edda Fields-Black wins Pulitzer Prize for History

EDDA FIELDS-BLACK (PHOTO COURTESY CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY) It’s for her book detailing the Combahee River Raid of 1863 Dr. Edda Fields-Black was just minding her own...

Inside My Father’s House: John Conyers III reclaims a legacy rooted in Detroit, justice, and generational truth

The weight of legacy doesn’t always show up in speeches or statues. Sometimes, it breathes through the pages of a son’s testimony—a man raised...

Athol Fugard: the great South African playwright who captured what it means to be human

Athol Fugard in 2010. His plays and novels won international awards and were made into films like Tsotsi. Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images by Dennis...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel tells the interconnected stories of four women in Nigeria. Francois Durand/Getty Images/Dior by Daria Tunca, Université de Liège Award-winning Nigerian novelist...

White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth

Patrice Lumumba, left, first Prime Minister of independent Congo in 1960. The CIA celebrated his death. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images by Henning Melber, University of...

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