Author David Reynolds talks about the manuscript written by former slave, Harriet Jacobs. Also, Mende Nazer tells her personal story of slavery. As a child, she was abducted from her village in Sudan.
The 1776 Report’s call for “restoring patriotic education” (Report, p. 16) is a positive initiative to reverse the growing divide in America. Unfortunately, calling it an “illusion that slavery was ...
In the waning hours of his presidency, Donald Trump continues to make racism its defining feature. Trump created a 1776 Commission to study the idea that Americans are being indoctrinated with a false ...
Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Personal narratives are powerful and often ...
The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral videos exposed injustice, enslaved Black Americans wielded their narratives as ...
Ola Mae Spinks, the retired Detroit librarian who is credited with helping preserve a significant piece of Black history, has died. She was 106 years old. Ola Mae Spinks, the retired Detroit librarian ...
There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...
What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...
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