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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.
Jul 1
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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.
Jan 29
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Leo Oladimu, as told to Shawna Kenney
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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…
Nov 16, 2023
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Lyndsey Ellis
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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…
Oct 23, 2023
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Davon Clark
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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…
Jun 19, 2023
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Genelle Levy
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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…
Jun 1, 2023
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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 2022 way.
Feb 21, 2022
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Julianna Bjorksten
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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.
Feb 22, 2021
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Noa Mendoza
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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…
Aug 5, 2020
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Erika Hayasaki
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The New Sisterhood of Black Female Homesteaders
From the South Side of Chicago to tiny off-the-grid Carolina farms, a growing number of Black women are reclaiming the land — and their mental and…
Jul 9, 2020
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Shanna B. Tiayon
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The Black Investigator Who Went Undercover as a White Man in the Jim Crow South
Walter Francis White helped the NAACP document the truth about lynchings in America. The fact that he could pass as caucasian came in very handy.
May 28, 2020
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A. M. Brune
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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…
Mar 9, 2020
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Davon Clark
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