Harper Lee with actor Mary Badham (‘Scout’ Finch), on the set of To Kill A Mockingbird in 1961. Leo Fuchs/Getty Images
by Paul Giles, Australian Catholic...
In the American South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images
by Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine
When...
Ta-Nehisi Coates (right)
Dennis Altman, La Trobe University
In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel,...
A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...
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1831—The Nat Turner slave rebellion begins in Southampton, Va. It was the best organized and most deadly slave revolt in American history....
by Marissa Braswell
The topic of restitution for Black Americans is highly contested. Now that the conversation has entered the mainstream, what is the solution?
Over...
Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America. Bettmann/Getty Images
by Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University
Though Frederick Douglass remains the most...
Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in ‘East Woods’ on East 24th St. in Austin, Texas. Austin History Center
by Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
The...
