Remembering Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Alice Walker’s act of generosity in writing The Color Purple forever revolutionized Black women’s literature.
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Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience
Alice Walker’s act of generosity in writing The Color Purple forever revolutionized Black women’s literature.
A 1906 photograph of a mathematics classroom illustrates how the Tuskegee Institute used “correlation” theory and the Sloyd system to teach applied mathematics.
Photographer Ben Shahn captures the lives of Black sharecropper families in Little Rock, Arkansas one Sunday in 1935
It was never built. And thus, in our age of toppling monuments, it never came down. But in October 1868, Thomas Nast imagined a monument to racial violence that continues to haunt us.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Alice Freeman Palmer: A Portrait of Two American Women Educators
What constitutes terrorism? How the Philadelphia police turned a neighborhood to ashes and the desecration of the remains of the dead that followed.
How I captured the final crossing of Civil Rights legend John Lewis
How the Santee-Cooper Project Disregarded the Dead and the Living
“Buffalo Soldiers”—The 92nd Infantry Division—in Italy, 1944-45
Black Women and the Winning of World War II
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