For better or worse, I didn’t attend a school that featured a homecoming dance or junior prom or any all-American John Hughes-type of event. Our one and only foray into bow ties and blowouts was ...

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Long, PhD, is an engaging and affirming immersion into the 20 poems and monologs that make up a kaleidoscopic portrait of the varied experiences of African American women from girlhood ... This choice ...

Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is not currently leading the museum and has been on personal leave as of March 14, according to an ...

The “A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond” gallery at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History ... of spellings in 18th-century documents, was almost surely ...