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For all of our divisions – underscored in the loud and contentious run-up to Election Day two weeks ago – we draw unity in America from sharing the...
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Princeton historian and author Nell Painter gave up a decorated, 30-year career in academia to pursue a lifelong love of art, emergin...
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Drawing from his penetrating new book Know Your Price, the Brookings Institution’s Andre Perry joins...
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Five days before Americans go to the polls, two leading writers/journalists with both local and national perspective – best-selling author and...
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Les Payne’s new biography of Malcolm X already has made waves, revealing a clandestine meeting between the incendiary civil rights activist and an...
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Alice Randall, seen widely as one of the most significant voices in contemporary African American fiction, was born in Detroit and can attes...
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Science has always been interwoven in our daily lives but perhaps never as noticeably – and for some, uncomfortably – as it is amid our struggles n...
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From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For a...
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For more than a century – until 1999 – an old Louisiana sugar plantation beside the Mississippi River held a painful secret. Locals knew it as Carv...
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William Faulkner once famously noted, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” If not explicitly, he was referring most pointedly to an...