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Jeffrey Haas talked about his book The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Lawrence Hill Books; November 1, 2009). On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton,…

The National Museum of African American History and Culture recently released a book called We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity. In conjunction, the museum also has…

Considered sacred by many Native Americans, South Dakota’s Black Hills have long been the source of contention over land claims between tribes and the U.S. government, as well as the controversial issue of…

New York Review of Books contributor Darryl Pinckney talked about his book, Busted in New York and Other Essays, in which he reflected on the black experience in America.

Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley talked about immigration, liberal politics, and the black power movement in America. He is the author of Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders,…

A “winter count” is a Plains Indian tradition of recording a tribe’s history with symbols drawn on buffalo hide or other material. In this short film funded by the U.S. Information Agency, Lydia…

This Lorillard Tobacco Company film profiles the Sioux people of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. According to a 1952 advertising magazine, the company featured a Native American theme to…

This film about Hopi arts and crafts was made with the support of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Indian Affairs and the Museum of Northern Arizona. The documentary is one…

Gettysburg College Professor Timothy Shannon taught a class on Colonial-era diplomatic ties between the Iroquois Confederacy of the eastern Great Lakes region and European settlers. He…

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talked about her book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, in which she offers her thoughts on the undermining of…

Kendra Allen, author of When You Learn the Alphabet, and and Jennine Cap Crucet, author of My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, talked about their books on race…

Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, talked about his book in which he shared his thoughts on gender and identity.

Clyde Ford talked about his book, Think Black: A Memoir of Sacrifice, Success, and Self-Loathing in Corporate America, in which he recalled the challenges his father John Stanley Ford faced…

President Trump signed an executive order establishing a task force to address violence against missing and murdered Native American women and children. The signing comes after Attorney…

New York University Journalism Professor Pamela Newkirk talked about her book, Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business, in which she examined whether diversity…

Politico staff writer Michael Kruse discussed his article on how Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s status as an openly gay candidate could affect his presidential candidacy.

Disability rights attorney Haben Girma, a Harvard Law School graduate who has been deafblind since birth, talked about navigating through a sighted, hearing world. She is the author of…

Carrie Gibson and Christina Proenza-Coles detailed the contributions of Hispanics and African-Americans in early America. Ms. Gibson is the author of El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story…

Carlotta Walls was fourteen years old and Terrence Roberts fifteen years old when they entered Little Rock Central High School on September 23, 1957. The two members of the “Little Rock Nine” recalled their…

A House Natural Resources subcommittee held a hearing on legislation to create a Smithsonian National American Latino Museum. Witnesses included Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY), who…