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?
African-American
Hip-Hop courses proliferate
Students explore Jay-Z, Rap Poetics, Religion and Hip Hop
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