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Slave shackles in a display case at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

February 7, 2017

Even before sanctuary cities, here’s how black Americans protected fugitive slaves

Barbara Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

In the 19th century, slaveholders advertised widely for runaway slaves and often hired men to track and capture fugitives. African-American communities offered sanctuary space to the runaways.

What do black Americans experience in the school system? masshighered

October 2, 2016

What it means to be black in the American educational system

Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin

What are the race-related struggles that African-American students experience throughout their school years? Here's the story of Tyrone.

Woman with slave girl in the mid 19th century, New Orleans. http://www.burnsarchive.com/

May 6, 2016

Should the U.S. provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

Carlton Mark Waterhouse, Indiana University

More than 150 years of scholarship and activism hasn't brought us any closer to consensus.

Top contributors

Kevin O'Neal Cokley
Professor of Educational Psychology and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Carlton Mark Waterhouse
Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow, Indiana University
Barbara Krauthamer
Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst