In 1978 the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a case about affirmative action in...
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14 January 2023
Surely Walter F. White, the superlative black investigative journalist, civil rights leader, author, and member of the Harlem Renaissance, is one of the...
27 November 2022
This past June 5 marked fifty-four years since the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was forty-two years old when he was struck down by an...
23 October 2022
During my decades-long teaching career, I have found that one of the reasons students shy away from history classes is they are afraid they will be forced...
18 October 2022
For years I have been wondering when someone would write a book about Constance Baker Motley, one of the most consequential activists in the modern-day...
18 October 2022
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Philip Metres is poet, scholar, translator, essayist, playwright, and peacebuilder. He is the...