The way people find work is changing. For decades, finding a job largely meant searching newspaper advertisements, visiting company offices, contacting recruitment agencies or submitting a résumé through a traditional job board. Today, the process can look very different. A…
Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 when the Montgomery bus boycott made him a national figure. Ella Baker was 52. She had already spent years traveling through the South for the NAACP, recruiting members and helping neglected local branches function.…
Fourteen years separated Brown v. Board of Education from Green v. County School Board. In one sense, that seems extraordinary. The Supreme Court had ruled segregated public schools unconstitutional in 1954. Yet in 1968, it was still deciding what school…
The first Historically Black Colleges and Universities did not set out to offer a different version of American higher education. They opened because most colleges would not admit Black students. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania dates its beginning to 1837, when…
Food can tell you where people came from, what they survived, what they had access to, what they refused to forget and what they turned into something of their own. That is especially true in Black America. Ask someone about…
