Five Racially Controversial Verdicts in American History Darlene Kriesel and Athena Lark Government, Society & Culture The Mississippi Delta was no doubt as muggy this summer as it was in the summer of 1955 when fourteen-year-old Emmett Till walked into a grocery store in Money, Mississippi, and with his Chicago confidence...
Black History Month: From Negro History Week to Post-Racialism? Natashia Deon and Athena Lark History, Society & Culture In a recent video post on Upworthy.com, social commentator/comedian, Louis CK (who is white) was interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Louis CK joked, “Every year, white people add a hundred years...
Portraits of Slavery in Contemporary African-American Fiction Athena Lark Society & Culture A Hippo Reads Exclusive Reprint, Courtesy of Gently Read Literature Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. —Marcus Tullius Cicero What tangled skeins are the...
