News

Akpeti, however, gave credit to God for his achievements to divine providence, describing himself as a devout Christian ...
2002-03-03T23:00:07-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...
A group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images For ...
San Diego teacher Amy Glancy thought she’d prepared her fourth-grade students for the day’s language arts lesson. She knew there was a land mine in the poem she planned to read, but she considered it ...
I s it acceptable for pedagogical purposes to enunciate the epithet “nigger”? The question is topical because of a string of incidents in which professors have been condemned, disciplined, even fired ...
“White” is an unsensual word. Where other terms that begin with the same consonants sound whimsical—“whiff” or “whiskers” or, well, “whimsical”—“white” coldly whistles. Even without the distinctly ...
YOU CANNOT go far in Australia without stumbling on a spot named after an act of colonial violence. The continent is dotted with Massacre Bays, Deadman’s Creeks and Murdering Gullies. Suicide Bay, in ...
Jill Nelson is the author of “Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience” and, most recently, “Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island.” Updated January 6, 2011, 3:57 ...
When he was 17 years old, Sammy Davis, Jr. was drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War II, “…all of five foot six inches and one hundred twenty pounds,” he said in a book about his life. “He ...