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5:12

Keenan Norris

One of the most "dangerous" men in American history

Posted Feb 2023

5:10

Karlos Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio

What is Juneteenth, and why is it important?

Posted Feb 2023

8:05

Channing Gerard Joseph

How Black queer culture shaped history

Posted Feb 2023

5:52

Frank Cogliano

History vs. Thomas Jefferson

Posted Jan 2023

5:07

Marc Adam Hertzman and Flavio dos Santos Gomes

The kingdom hidden in Brazil

Posted Dec 2022

4:36

Charita Gainey

How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world

Posted Aug 2022

4:49

Christopher M. Moreman

The dark history of zombies

Posted Apr 2022

4:21

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the fallacy that divided a nation?

Posted Feb 2022

5:08

Dan Sayers

The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp

Posted Aug 2021

4:28

Karen L. Cox

Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history

Posted Feb 2021

4:47

Yen Pham

Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"?

Posted Jan 2021

36:20

William "Sandy" Darity

A blueprint for reparations in the US

Posted Jul 2020

4:17

Daina Ramey Berry

The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth

Posted Apr 2020

4:48

Marlene Daut

The first and last king of Haiti

Posted Oct 2019

4:33

Christina Greer

How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable

Posted Feb 2019

5:03

Fiona Radford

From enslavement to rebel gladiator: The life of Spartacus

Posted Dec 2018

12:29

Nikki Clifton

3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking

Posted Sep 2018

4:38

Janell Hobson

The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman

Posted Jul 2018

17:55

Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Migration and the power of a single decision

Posted Mar 2018

15:30

Joseph McGill

My quest to sleep in every former slave dwelling in the US

Posted Dec 2017

13:50

Kandice Sumner

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty

Posted Nov 2016

4:36

Camille A. Brown

A visual history of social dance in 25 moves

Posted Sep 2016

4:19

Sanford Biggers

An artist's unflinching look at racial violence

Posted May 2016

11:27

Angélica Dass

The beauty of human skin in every color

Posted Mar 2016

14:36

Dorothy Roberts

The problem with race-based medicine

Posted Feb 2016

18:51

Noy Thrupkaew

Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works

Posted Jul 2015

5:23

Anthony Hazard

The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you

Posted Dec 2014

5:39

Alex Gendler

History vs. Christopher Columbus

Posted Oct 2014

3:23

Kenneth C. Davis

What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence

Posted Jul 2014

19:21

Lisa Kristine

Photos that bear witness to modern slavery

Posted Aug 2012

18:22

Sheryl WuDunn

Our century's greatest injustice

Posted Aug 2010

18:01

Kevin Bales

How to combat modern slavery

Posted Mar 2010

12:42

Sunitha Krishnan

The fight against sex slavery

Posted Dec 2009

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