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The last living link of my family’s story of origin in antebellum Southern Virginia died at age 105 a few years ago. My grandmother, Mamie Todd, was born in 1916. Her grandparents were born into ...
What is it about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that has the Trump administration in such atwitter? Is it bigotry, is ...
After significant public backlash, the U.S. National Park Service has restored its original webpage on the history of the ...
Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop ...
Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...
Some say these changes are minor. I say they are surgical. They are subtle, yes — but profoundly damaging. As one historian ...
As the Trump administration’s anti-DEI campaign continues across the country, efforts by federal agencies to erase diversity ...
Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on Black America itself,” Ibram X. Kendi, the race historian and bestselling author, ...