>"A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book Elite Capture, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing."

>"The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction."

>"The historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history."

"Project highlights links between slave-ownership, art collecting and philanthropy in 19th-century Britain"

"The overthrow of slavery in the United States wasn't a byproduct of capitalist development nor the triumph of an enlightened activist vanguard. It was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics — a battle that holds _...Read More_

>"William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations."

As Cora, a fugitive enslaved person in Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, attempts to make her way to freedom via the clandestine antislavery network—depicted by the author as a subterranean train system—a remark _...Read More_

The New York Times: What Should I Do With My Grandfather’s Cringey Canvases?.

Talking to Ellen Gallagher about her paintings is a multi-dimensional slalom ride: we swerve from the social lives of pictures to the sex life of coral and the transportation of slaves across oceans and centuries. Right now her latest works _...Read More_

Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television.

>"A new history of three 19th-century human traffickers explodes all the old excuses."

>"I WAS ONE OF FIVE ARTISTS shortlisted for the competition to create the Memorial in the Tuileries to the Victims of Slavery. I write to correct some of _...Read More_

>"The Regency period was full of gossip and scandal, something Bridgerton gets right. However, it leaves out the period's grim record on slavery."

"The spectacle of Wednesday’s tepid police response to riotous mobs shocked many. But the passivity is not some surprising anomaly—it is the status quo."