Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION ...

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

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Growing up as a Black girl in grade school, I hated history. Black history tiptoed around slavery and implied Martin Luther King Jr. ended racism. Women's history included Amelia Earhart, aviation and ...

A highly entertaining and well-researched tour of wine fraud from ancient Roman times up to the present day. A bin of corks used as evidence in the trial of wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan is on display in ...

I define “homophobia,” more often referred to as “heterosexism” today, as the overarching system of advantages bestowed on heterosexuals. Heterosexism is the institutionalization of a heterosexual ...