“I have had both of my parents’ ancestry tested by 23andMe, and I have been tested as well. I am ostensibly…
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You can read this quote from the essay “The Crisis” (1920), and other quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois, in Bartlett’s…
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You can read this Madam C.J. Walker quote, from her speech to the National Negro Business League (1912), in Bartlett’…
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You can read this quote from the novel Quicksand, and others from Nella Larsen, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black…
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Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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You can read this quote from Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), and other quotes from…
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You can read this quote from the book Having Our Say, and other quotes from Bessie Delany, in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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You can read this Nat Turner quote, from the book The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black…
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You can read this quote by Kara Walker, from a 1996 interview, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the…
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“I have been tracing my roots on my mother’s side for a number of years. They hail from Middlesex County, Va., home…
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You can read these lyrics by Jay Z, from his song “December 4th,” in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the…
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You can read this quote by Halle Berry, from her 2002 acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, in Bartlett’s…
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You can read this quote by David Adjaye, from a 2003 interview in the Guardian newspaper, in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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You can read this quote by the character Winter Santiaga in Sister Souljah’s novel The Coldest Winter Ever (1999)…
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You can read this quote by Michael Jordan in his book I Can’t Accept Not Trying (1994) and in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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More than 40 years ago, I learned of my family’s ancestral ties to Thomas Jefferson. It was a blood connection…
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