In this interview, Professor Sinha discusses the history of the Reparation Movement and its successes and failures.
Manisha Sinha on Reparations History and Future
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Multigenerational Reparations with Professor Thomas Craemer
In this interview, Professor Craemer looks at past reparations for slaveowners in the United States and Great Britain as successful examples of multi-generational payments. We go into the math of how Black reparations might be calculated, as well.
Read More About Slavery Reparations
REPARATIONS: The Complicated Debate Context, News, and History No Pensions for Ex-Slaves: How Federal Agencies Suppressed Movement To Aid...
The Case Against Reparations with Dr. Reginald Bell
Dr. Bell discusses his article “The Unintended Consequences of Promising Black Americans Reparations” in which we talk about Black American enslavers, the difficulty of assigning reparation responsibility, and just how to frame the questions surrounding potential slavery reparations.
Talking Reparations with Dr. Michael Conklin
In this interview we discuss Prof. Conklin’s paper An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric.
The 1619 Project and Its Detractors
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's...
Interview with David Waldstreicher on Historians and 1619 Debate
David Waldstreicher teaches history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification and Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution. Most recently he has edited the Diaries of John Quincy Adams for the Library of America, and is finishing a new biography, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley.
Race, Medicine, and Health Care
Books The unapologetic guide to Black mental health : navigate an unequal system, learn tools for emotional wellness, and get the help you...
Interview with Rana Hogarth on her book Medicalizing Blackness
Rana Hogarth is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University; an M.H.S. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research highlights how the professionalization of medicine and the production of scientific knowledge in the Americas was bound up with the making of race.
CH-UH History of Integration and Desegregation
Local History Librarian Jessica Robinson has hosted two incredible programs in the last several months dealing with Cleveland Heights-University...
Interview with Sherri Burr on the Free Blacks of Virginia
Sherri Burr is the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico. She joined the UNM law faculty in 1988, after having received her A.B. (Politics) from Mount Holyoke College, her M.P.A (International Relations) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Books About Black Achievement for Black History Month
This Black History Month why not take a moment to celebrate Black Firsts and Black Achievement? Here is a list of books currently available at...