Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, who was an enslaved farmworker in Brazil, clears land in 2015 in Monsenhor Gil, Brazil, after obtaining his freedom. Millions...
Kwanzaa celebration, family lighting the kinara candle together at home in spirit of unity - Getty Images stock photo
by Frank Dobson, Vanderbilt University
On Dec....
Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons
by Ana Lucia Araujo,...
It’s harder for middle-class Black people to get a mortgage than it is for low-income white people. MoMo Productions/Getty Images
by Beverly Moran, Vanderbilt University
The...
University of Missouri students at a 2015 rally to demand the college president’s resignation amid allegations of racism on campus. AP Photo/Jeff Roberson
– we are...
A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...
Racist depictions of Africa as a dark continent abound in history. Here US filmmakers pose with Africans in 1925. Osa & Martin Johnson Safari Mus./Getty...
One of the first dilemmas that Black people face is whether to let strangers touch their hair – and under what circumstances. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
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European explorers named the continent, not Africans. Ipsumpix/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
by Jonathan O. Chimakonam, University of Pretoria
Should African people be called black – or is the...
More than 200 years after her death, Jane Austen’s views on slavery remain unclear. Jim Dyson/Getty Images
by Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
More than two...
