Presents a biography of the life, politics, and work of Shirley Graham Du Bois, a Harlem Renaissance playwright, biographer, composer, teacher, novelist, proto-feminist, political activist, and wife o
Ironically, around the time that African slaves were emancipated in the US, "blackbirding"--the practice of luring Polynesians and other nonwhites to work for virtually nothing--arose in Australia and
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages: these could be the crowning achievements of a life w
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages: these could be the crowning achievements of a life w
As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turm
The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African-American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne pre
