Thomas Healy tells the story of Soul City, North Carolina, an intentional community founded in the 1970s to help Black people achieve the American dream.
Julian Bond’s lectures from his prolific teaching career are full of firsthand lessons from his direct involvement in the civil rights movement.
Ida B. Wells was righteously indignant and wise beyond her era, and Michelle Duster translates her drive to today’s racial discourse with insight and grace.
This comprehensive meditation on Black history in the United States features 90 noteworthy Black authors and poets ruminating on the last 400 years.
Set during an era when being Black and accused of a crime was almost a guaranteed death sentence, A Shot in the Moonlight reads like a riveting thriller.
An illuminating history of racism in America, White Fright reveals how white anxieties around sexuality shaped the Black experience of social injustice.
Alice L. Baumgartner’s South to Freedom shows that enslaved people who escaped to Mexico before the Civil War contributed to the downfall of slavery in the U.S.
The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells is an eye-opening history of antebellum New York’s dirtiest secrets.
The Dead Are Arising illustrates the forces that shaped Malcolm X and captures the voice of a revolutionary whose words resonate powerfully in our own times.
One of our most prominent contemporary historians, Jon Meacham, offers an appreciative assessment of John Lewis’ legacy in His Truth Is Marching On.
This absorbing look at a pivotal point in civil rights activity before the 1950s and ’60s is well done and should be of interest to us all.
Morgan Jerkins recounts her journey to uncover the meaning of stories from millions of African Americans who moved north during the Great Migration.
We all know Rosa Parks as the woman who resisted yielding her seat to a white man on the bus, but there’s so much more to this titan of American history.
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