The Black Middle Class Needs Attention Too
2020
Read excerpts and view charts from a report on the state of the Black middle class.
Diversity in Contemporary Black Communities
by Mamadi Corra
Learn more about shifts in the foreign-born Black population and its consequent impacts on the diversity of African Americans today.
African American Naming Conventions
by Claude A. Clegg III
Understand changes in nomenclature in the African diaspora.
The Growing Diversity of Black America
2021
Explore changing demographics in the Black population over the course of the twenty-first century.
Diverse Roles of Africans in Early American Colonization
by Matthew Restall
Explore the ways free and enslaved Africans influenced Latin America in the sixteenth century.
Slavery and Freedom in Brazil
by Keila Grinberg
Explore the pervasive impact of slavery in Brazil, and the long fight to abolish the system of enslavement.
The Freedmen’s Bureau and African American Families
by Justene Hill Edwards
Understand the roles the Freedmen’s Bureau played in supporting African American families and communities.
Garnet’s Address in Context
by Jake Alspaugh
Understand the origins of Garnet’s speech.
Representation on the Stage, Screen, and Airwaves
by Kenya Davis-Hayes
Explore the history of Black performance from Reconstruction through the 1960s.
The Great Migration and the Making of Modern America
by Davarian L. Baldwin
Explore the impact of the “Exodus from Dixie.”
Global Africans and Transatlantic Slaving to the United States
by Kwasi Konadu
Explore the origins of and predecessors to the transatlantic slave trade.
Afonso and the Slave Trade
by John K. Thornton
Explore the origins and evolution of the slave trade in Kongo and Portugal.
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