BlogHow Segregation Survives
The latest from our special series investigating the causes of inequality in public education today.
BlogYes, He Did: May Britt & Sammy Davis, Jr.’s Courageous Marriage
Threatened, kidnapped, and insulted for love — if Britt & Davis didn’t go the distance, no one has.
BlogVirginia’s Brush with Eugenics
In 1927, Virginia didn’t just ban interracial marriage — they started a program of forced sterilization drawn straight from the Nazi playbook.
EpisodePulitzer100: Encounters at the Heart of the World
This program is funded in part by the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative, which seeks to focus on journalism and the humanities, to imagine their future and to inspire new …
EpisodeBlack in Cuba
Two years after his 1959 speech at the Havana Labor Rally Fidel Castro declared that the age of racism and discrimination was over. Geoffroy de Laforcade (Norfolk State University) and …
EpisodeReplay: A Symphony of Hopes and Dreams
The poetry of children in Birmingham, Alabama, inspired a recent classical music piece titled “Dream, Child. Hope.” It was composed by Adolphus Hailstork (Old Dominion University), in honor of Martin Luther …
