• subscribe

    • African-American

    Why a slave who’d escaped to Canada kept in touch with her mistress

    Cecelia Jane Reynolds corresponded with her former owner. Was it real friendship, or a desire to free her family?

    Hip-Hop courses proliferate

    Students explore Jay-Z, Rap Poetics, Religion and Hip Hop

    no-image

    There’s a new black Barbie in town

    Call it the Michelle Obama effect, but Mattel’s ‘authentic’ new line is flying off the shelves