african american history

The essay attributed to a history professor says she is white and grew up Jewish in suburban Kansas City, but has “assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.”

Broadway performer Robert Hartwell recently went viral when he purchased a home originally built by enslaved people to “fill it with love.” For Hartwell, who is Black, the house represents an opportunity to turn a painful piece of history into an opportunity for his future and the future of his family to come.