Topic: African American History

Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and the resistance

Chauncey DeVega
March on Washington; Freddy Gray

Despair, justice and Black History Month

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: Hope on the Fourth

Chauncey DeVega
Roots

Fact, fiction and "Roots"

Andrew O'Hehir
David Pilgrim

"Understanding Jim Crow"

Scott Timberg
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Lies we tell about slavery

Michael Schulson
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Brown's heroic slavery escape

Ezra Greenspan
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Slavery and the shutdown

Andrew O'Hehir
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Slavery wasn't like "Django"

Andrew O'Hehir
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