Mae Whitlock Gentry (Author)
Mae Whitlock Gentry (Author)
Robert D. Bland (Author)
How Konstantin Sintsov built one of Eastern Europe's largest grain logistics operations by solving railcar inefficiencies and partnering with global traders.
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The unashamedly partisan book by Daniel E. Sutherland also looks at the science behind Whistler’s nocturnes
Ebony Joy Wilkins (Author)
On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the Kansas City Public Library(Central Branch) hosted author A'Lelia Bundles in a discussion of her newest book, "Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance".
Veronica Alease Davis (Author)
Jerry Urso (Author)
Jack Marchbanks, Ph.D. (Author)
Gloria Swindler Boutte (Author)
Joyce E. King (Author)
George L. Johnson (Author)
LaGarrett J. King (Author)
Jarvais J. Jackson (Author)
The post W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk and Black Double Consciousness first appeared on ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month.
William D. Wright
The post The Wizard of Tuskegee Booker T. Washington and the Revolutionary Modernization of Black America first appeared on ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month.
Carol Quigless
The post The Dr. Milton D Quigless, Sr. Story: A Memoir of Race, Medicine and Purpose in the Segregated South first appeared on ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month.
Sharron Wilkins Conrad
The post The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory first appeared on ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month.
At her English country manor, the writer Rebecca West had two jersey cows: Primrose and Patience. She delighted in the fresh milk they produced, and in canning vegetables, and in making jam. As Julia Cooke writes in Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work,
Writing, and the World_,_ her triple biography of West and her contemporaries Martha Gellhorn and Mickey Hahn, “When an editor at…
A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars.
Discover the story of Mickey Rourke young — his early life, films, boxing career, and the transformation that shaped his Hollywood legacy.
The W. E. B. Du Bois Directory is being developed as a comprehensive and expanding collection of materials and information by and about scholar, teacher, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. It will provide materials about Du Bois; copies of, or links to, books and articles written by Du Bois; lists of, and links to, monuments, places, and events honoring Du Bois; and links to research and…
The separation of the “American Negro Exhibit” from the other US displays fit its purpose. Devoting an exhibit specifically to Black Americans suggested that they, indeed, constituted a separate society. In Du Bois’s words, the infographics made up “an honest, straightforward exhibit of a small nation of people, picturing their life and development without apology or gloss, and above all made…
Data visualization is not a recent innovation. Even in the eighteenth century, activists and economists, as well as educators and politicians, were fully aware of the power of visualization to produce new knowledge.
But who, more precisely, was wielding this power? On whose behalf? And for whose benefit? The answers to these questions are what this project explores.
By retelling the…
Craig A. Miller MD (Author)
Charlene Drew Jarvis (Author)
The post Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew first appeared on ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month.
Kyra E. Hicks
The post This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces first appeared on ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month.
Denis Johnson wrote about some of the most unlikable characters in American fiction, and yet he always managed to make readers care what happened to them. This talent may have had something to do with many unlikable qualities in Johnson himself that, through the force of his dedicated and uncompromising talent, carried him through three marriages, nearly two dozen books of poetry and fiction,…