The Men Who Started the War
Harpers Ferry seemed almost a part of the neighborhood when I was growing up. Granted, it was across the state line, in West Virginia, and slightly more than…
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Black Success, White Backlash
For more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published in 1972, when I was…
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The Val Demings Gamble
On a hot D.C. Wednesday in the middle of July, an 11-foot statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune—carved out of marble extracted from the same Tuscan quarry that Michelangelo…
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