Ava DuVernay is black, y’all.

While we focus on the history and legacy of slavery in the United States, it is sometimes easy to forget that the…

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OK, so I'll admit that maybe "on fleek" is over, but it just felt right describing a celebration of melanin in the room…

“I now know what Frederick Douglass felt like in 1876 when Reconstruction came to an end,” says Henry Louis Gates Jr.,…