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Inside Protagonist Black, a pop-up shop celebrating diverse books and cocktail pairings
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 week agoIndependent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community,...
Author Q&A: How the impact of a post-Civil War bank failure lingers today
Yahoo Finance· 2 weeks agoAuthor Rodney Brooks unpacks the story of the rapid rise and fall of the Freedman's Bank created in...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoUCLA professor Vinay Lal recalls his friend the Rev. James Lawson, who died this week, as being...
Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIs your social media group a budding democracy or someone's fiefdom? John Trumbull's painting,...
In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThough progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s...
W.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 still explains roots of the urban Black...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOver a century ago, white Philadelphia elites believed the city was going to the dogs – and they...
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoDu Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the...
Civil War History Shows the Danger of Comparing Trump to Jesus
Time via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA hook is lowered from a construction crane next to a statue of Robert E. Lee prior to its removal...
Opinion: A Black man’s view on what Biden should do for the White working class
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA Black academic with a keen interest in US politics, Keith Magee shares advice to President Joe...
When lesbians led the women’s suffrage movement
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA suffrage parade. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams,...