May 26, 2021
May 25th. Now, a date for global Black calendars. George Floyd's murder one year ago today ignited and expanded a movement, and on this day...
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March 4, 2015
On February 7, the Art Gallery of Ontario celebrated the opening of the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time with a packed...
Art
January 8, 2015
Very few Americans know that Dred Scott and Michael Brown are buried within miles of each other. The first, a slave, who sued for his...
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December 19, 2014
"A Typical Negro" is the title of a 1962 newspaper article narrating the story of an enslaved man, Gordon, and his escape from slavery to...