(受困扰的)with skin color.Morrison was nearly 40 when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970.The Nobel Prize committee described her writing as language itself,a language she wants to liberate from race.Her novels discussed America's past,focusing on black history and the ...
Each day, millions of people brew a cup of coffee in the morning to help get their day started. As with most things in history, from milk to vegetables, someone had to be the first to think of roasting beans for their...
million Indigenous people enslaved in the Americas between 1492 and 1880, many of whom were sent to work in the Caribbean. According to Wampanoag historian Linda Jeffers Coombs, Tisquantum was one of only two tribal members who found his way back home from the slave ship that landed in Spain...
Kameelah Rasheed:I always loved art as a kid. I would spend hours sitting outside and drawing the lemon bush that was in my front yard. When I got to high school (a private Catholic school in the Bay Area), even though we had art class, it was very much focused on the core subjec...
He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history. "No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great-granddaughter. "An enslaved man leaves a plantation, serves during the Civil War with Lincoln's army, and...
or the last. He died in 1889.He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history."No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great-granddaughter. "An enslaved man leaves a plantation, serves during the Civil War...
they took with them enslaved people to work on vast swaths of land full of wandering cattle.George McJunkin, for example, was born to enslaved parents in Midland, TX in 1851. His blacksmith father was saving up money to purchase the family’s freedom when, in 1865,...
in showing a young enslaved girl and its accessibility – on a short base that allows children to be on the same level as the sculpture – do so. Moreover, the power lies in how it documents a fact that many either do not know or neglect: Slavery existed in the North well into the...
they took with them enslaved people to work on vast swaths of land full of wandering cattle.George McJunkin, for example, was born to enslaved parents in Midland, TX in 1851. His blacksmith father was saving up money to purchase the family’s freedom when, in 1865,...
Rhiannon Giddens has been one of the most visible and vital purveyors of various strands of folk music. Along the way, the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist has been invaluable ineducating country fans on the history of the banjo, which was first brought to America by enslaved people taken from ...