At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

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A look at a resilient and persevering population of people who built and nurtured communities wherever they lived, during segregation and beyond.