In 1903 while speaking of the fame and popularity of his nemesis, Mr. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois, the premiere Black intellectual of his day said...
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14 April 2020
As I mentioned in a previous review of a Richard Nixon biography, Watergate was the beginning of my fascination with politics and American history. The...
10 October 2019
It must have been somewhat difficult to grow up as the namesake of one of the most prominent and controversial human rights leader in American history,...
27 August 2019
As a professor of African American history, I have very little interest in slavery. I am painfully aware that the insidious institution constructed and...
15 August 2019
I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Ashe in the early 1980s. It was in a little tennis shop in a strip mall somewhere on Bethel Road. He was representing...
18 June 2019
Never in the history of First Ladies’ memoirs has there been a book so eagerly awaited as the one written by Michelle Obama. When Becoming hit the...