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April 7, 2025

Malcolm Ferguson

Trump’s Anti-DEI Purge Hits Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman is now DEI, apparently.

October 24, 2024

Searching for the Elusive Man Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

March 30, 2021

Living Through Detroit’s Perpetual Housing Crisis

The story of my block is the story of Detroit, a majority Black city where so many Black residents still find it nearly impossible to get by.

September 17, 2019

Eric Herschthal

How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past

“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

April 20, 2016

6 reasons Harriet Tubman deserves to be on the $20 bill.