There is a grassroots effort out of Tulsa to turn Black Wall Street, the site of one of the worst race riots in American history, into a national monument. For a city that isn't always real great about wanting to remember the awfulness of its...
black history
The College Board's ridiculous claims that taking all the "controversial" stuff out of the AP African-American course had nothing to do with political interference was laughable even before we had.
The Advanced Placement system is corrupt to the core. It's part of the privatization of public education, a "non-profit" that exists to create huge profits for itself by getting parents.
While the U.S. does better than basically any country in the world in memorializing key sites of its racist past--quite a contrast to its contemporary politics--usually these sites happen through a combination of people very committed to getting a national park made out of their...
Fascinating discussion of a 1973 dinner between James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, and Henry Louis Gates. The latter was just starting out. He was commissioned to talk to these two legends.