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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onApril 16, 2013
The great scholar and thinker on why integrating schools is not enough.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 18, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A genre lost its inhibitions as Janie's orgasm riled critics.
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September 28, 2012
The British author of NW shares her must-reads, from James Baldwin to Toni Morrison to Alex Haley.
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by Cynthia Gordy onJuly 4, 2012
From Malcolm X to Condoleezza Rice, these notables describe complicated relationships with the U.S.
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by Linda Villarosa onJuly 23, 2011
Quiet as it's kept, a number of the brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance fell along the LGBT rainbow spectrum.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 1, 2010
An unusual exhibit of photographs of middle-class African Americans at the Paris Expo of 1900 was a declaration of war against racial stereotypes -- and a forerunner of class conflict among blacks.
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by Jack White onJuly 3, 2010
What would Frederick Douglass have to say about being black and American today?
