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The Clara Luper Teachers’ Institute cohort stands together beneath the portrait of civil rights pioneer Clara Luper, committed to teaching Oklahoma’s civil rights history and the legacy of the…
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January 13, 2026Kristi Williams works with a student at Black History Saturdays, the free monthly program she founded in Tulsa to teach Black history that Oklahoma public schools cannot. The intergenerational… -
Photo courtesy of the author Leana Brunson-McClain grew up in the heart of Santa Monica’s Black community during its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s. According to Brunson lore, the family move… -
Photo by Mark Carrel / Stock.adobe.com. The idea of reparations for slavery—a polarizing topic—continues to gain traction in US society. According to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 18 p… -
Photo of Areva Martin with Section 14 Survivors / Courtesy of Areva Martin Palm Springs, California, an affluent desert community one hundred miles east of Los Angeles, is known for tourism… -
Carolyne and Bill Edwards founded the Alfred T. Quinn Research Center in 2019 to document the history of Santa Monica’s Black community for future generations.… -
Black beachgoers Verna Deckard and Arthur Lewis pictured in front of a fence demarcating Santa Monica’s whites-only Club Casa Del Mar. Blacks were relegated to a small roped-off area known as t… -
September 26, 2024Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. Tens of thousands of American… -
Photo of Holocaust survivor Eva Weyl speaking to a young participant at the BVB-Lernzentrum in Dortmund / Christina Walther Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill… -
Katharina Oguntoye in front of a model for the Memorial for the Forgotten Souls / Photo courtesy of Carolyn Gammon Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlight… -
Photo by Stacey Reynolds Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues… -
August 30, 2023Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE Speakers Cornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Stud… -
Ebony Iman Dallas, Songs of Freedom (2021), acrylic and Ghanaian textiles on hand-carved birchwood / Portrait of activist and teacher Clara Luper singing with members of the… -
Shoshana Bellen standing in front of a typical building in DP Camp Föhrenwald, 1948 (Blimeh Hellman) In his ongoing column, which appears in every other issue, Karlos K. Hill highlights t… -
Fulton Leroy Washington (aka Mr. Wash), Emancipation Proclamation (2014) / Courtesy of the artist / ARTBYWASH.COM The story of how Fulton Leroy Washington became an internationally a…
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