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Black in America

The Real Story of Black Martha’s Vineyard
Beyond the beautiful beaches and glitzy galas, Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summerers…
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Genelle Levy
Daughters of the Bomb: A Story of Hiroshima, Racism and Human Rights
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors—and traces connections from Malcolm X to…
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Erika Hayasaki
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The TikTok Poet Bringing Untold Black History to the Masses
Nick Courmon is sharing forgotten Black history in a very modern way.
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Julianna Bjorksten
The Census Always Boxed Us Out
For most of our history, the U.S. government treated biracial Americans as if we didn’t even exist, but my family has stories to tell.
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E. Dolores Johnson
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I Was a Black Nazi Skinhead
When I went to prison I was Black. By the time I got out 11 years later I was crazy, fascist and white.
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Leo Oladimu, as told to Shawna Kenney
The Notorious Reign of the Black Bordello Queen
She spent 46 years a slave. Then Madam Priscilla Henry built a brothel business so successful she earned a life-changing fortune—and scores of enemies…
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Lyndsey Ellis
My Name-Twin Was Arrested for Robbery...and Everyone Thought It Was Me
When I bumped into the other Davon Clark in college, it was funny. When friends confused our dating profiles, it was weird. When he got in trouble with…
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Davon Clark
The Real Story of Black Martha’s Vineyard
Beyond the beautiful beaches and glitzy galas, Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summerers…
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Genelle Levy
The Gutsy Undercover Cop Who Took Down Chicago P.D.’s Most Crooked Crew
A Black sergeant was the only one willing to take on a risky FBI mission targeting drug-dealer-extorting cops. He reveals how he did it—and why it was…
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David Howard
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The TikTok Poet Bringing Untold Black History to the Masses
Nick Courmon is sharing forgotten Black history in a very modern way.
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Julianna Bjorksten
The Writer Helping People Care for the Land—and for Themselves
Narratively contributor Shanna B. Tiayon on homesteading, gardening, Black Lives Matter, and staying well.
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Noa Mendoza
How Kenny Washington Broke the NFL's Color Barrier...And Why You've Never Heard of Him
He pushed past brutal racism to become the first Black player in major league sports—a year before Jackie Robinson—yet even his own kids never knew his…
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Geoff Graser
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