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Oppression in the Kitchen, Delight in the Dining Room
At one plantation museum in Virginia, the story of enslaved chocolatier Caesar shows the oppression that lay behind the elites’ culinary treat.
What Did Christmas and New Year’s Mean to the Enslaved?
A different kind of holiday season
Course Examines How Newspapers Covered Lynchings
Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Do Old Wounds Ever Heal?
When do the memories of children torn from mothers’ breasts, fathers’ protection, a community’s legacy stop haunting us? When does healing begin?
In This Era of Racial Strife, What Gives Me Hope and Despair?
William Spivey answers audience members’ questions from Medium Day.