Professor Banks discusses her book, Black Culture Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America. By examining how corporate support and giving to Black […]
Supreme Court Decisions part 1
Plessy v. Ferguson Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the constitutionality of racial segregation. The decision created the “separate […]
Criminal Justice and the Misdemeanor System with Alexandra Natapoff
Professor Alexandra Natapoff discusses her book, Punishment without Crime. How America’s Misdemeanor justice system targets the innocent, taxes the poor, and generates revenue for the […]
Eric Foner on the Reconstruction’s Constitution
Professor Foner discusses his book “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.” By looking at the history of debate and […]

April Is Fair Housing Month: Here’s a List of Books and Movies to Help You Understand
National Fair Housing Month celebrates the passage of the Fair Housing Act in April, 1968, a national law that prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental […]
Bronwen Everill on Abolition and Ethical Capitalism
In this interview, Professor Bronwen Everill discusses her book, Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She covers how Abolitionist Consumers […]
Jonathan Wells on the Fugitive Slave Law
In this interview, Professor Jonathan Daniel Wells discusses his book, Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War. […]
David Krugler on 1919 Year of White Terrorism
David Krugler is a historian and novelist. A professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, he has published, in addition to two novels, nonfiction […]
Steve Luxenberg on Plessy versus Ferguson
Steve Luxenberg is an associate editor at The Washington Post and an award-winning author. During his forty years as a newspaper editor and reporter, Luxenberg […]