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Scholars compared past presidential races to the 2016 campaign. Topics included changes in media coverage, and similarities and differences between previous presidential candidates and marke…

Historians and scholars discussed the history of African Americans in urban areas. Topics included black migration to cities, the rise of public housing, and barriers to black home ownership…

Professors Glenda Gilmore and Thomas Sugrue talked about their book These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present, in which they examine the events that have defined the U…

On the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech on race, panelists talked about the current state of racial relations in the U.S., and they responded to audien…

Thomas Sugrue talked about Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Random House; November 4, 2008). In the book he ecounts the civil rights movement in t…

The Institute for Research in African-American Studies held a symposium to discuss Dr. Ira Katznelson’s book When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twe…