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Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school NAACP chapter. Their friendship would go on to make history.

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In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul...

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During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousand...

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A review of "Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry’s Lost Political Generation" by Robert D. Bland

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In this interview with Brian Kwoba, “The Nation” talks with the author about his new book on the legacy of a little-known but influential activist.

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Chin Jou.  Captive Consumers: Hunger, Violence, and Inequality in American Prison Food.  University of North Carolina Press, 2026.  344 pages. I have been a fan of Chin Jou's work for a long time and did a blurb for her latest book: Captive Consumers is a tough, uncompromising, and utterly compelling analysis of the ways America’s mass incarceration system uses food as punishment, and must become more humane.

From mussels to halibut, abalone to crawfish, Osetra caviar to glass eels, many hundreds of species of seafood are raised on fresh and salt water farms all over the world—which is fantastic because 94...