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Jennifer Emerling How Octavia Butler Told the Future
We need her conception of “histofuturism” now more than ever.
Photo-illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Malcolm Ali / Getty. ‘Come Out and See the Stars’
How Americans like Harriet Tubman found hope in nature
Illustration by Gary Burnley. Sources: Library of Congress; Getty. The Great American Poet Who Was Named After a Slave Ship
A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.
Heritage Art / Heritage Images / Getty A National Tantrum at a National Park
“You’re in such a gorgeous place. Why are you complaining about stupid stuff?”
M. Scott Brauer Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies
The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork
Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.
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