George Kephart
George Kephart (February 7, 1811 – August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, landowner, farmer, and later philanthropist from Maryland. He played a...
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William Birch
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William Birch (often referenced as the Birch partner in Price, Birch & Co.; some deeds and contemporary accounts link a Henry Birch as a partner...
John C. Cook
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John C. Cook, commonly known as J. C. Cook and identified with Washington, D.C., was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the antebellum South....
Charles M. Price
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Charles M. Price (of Montgomery County, Maryland) was a 19th-century landowner, enslaver, and businessman in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during the lead-up to and...
The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981 Murder by the Ku Klux Klan and the Mother’s Lawsuit That Bankrupted a Hate Empire
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On the night of March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald—a young Black man with no criminal record or involvement in drugs—became the...
The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre
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The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre of March 17, 1886, stands as one of the most brutal and unpunished acts of racial violence in post-Reconstruction America....
Horace and Sara Baker
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In August 1963, just two days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington,...
Indians as the Preferred Filler Workforce
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Stepping into Roles Denied to Black People Under White Supremacy Throughout colonial and post-colonial history, Indians have repeatedly been positioned as the “go-to” or filler...
Why Don’t We Call Them by Their True Names: “White Europeans” Instead of “Colonizers”?
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A Global Reckoning from Africa to the Americas, India, and the Far East Across the Global South—from the savannas of Africa to the highlands of...