Checking the narrative.

The role of estate agents.

Frederick Douglass and Maryland. (And Ireland.)

h/t nancylebow

New York Times speaks out.

An (African-)American in Paris.

Two reviewers give a harsh judgement.

The tarnished heritage of the Golden Age.

Analysis of the flaws of a whites-only strategy.

Justice in Florida, 1950.

Really.

N.K. Jemisin on race, gender, history and SF.

I never knew about this.

Extraordinary.

Died 35 years ago today.

Glorious!

Indigenous Judaism in Africa.

The classic children's author.

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid,

A military order in 1862, immediately countermanded by Lincoln and repented by Grant in later life.

Dismal chronicle of something which seemed like a good idea at a time, but wasn't.

"if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride." (25 July, 1938)

I don't care about cricket, but found I had something in my eye reading this.

State-sanctioned lynching in 1944

"He ended the terror of living in the South."

"While I can smile at the intentions here, the method turns my stomach to the point of vomiting...the word "nigger" is a fact of American history and the current cultural fabric and every attempt to run away from the problem of its existence only buttresses the negative forces of ignorance powering it."