Everett’s novel “James,” which reimagines “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain from the perspective of Huck’s ...
Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project. This HBO film interpretation directed by Ed Bell ...
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Trenton’s future depends on increasing literacy rates [L.A. PARKER COLUMN]
Slave owners feared educated enslaved Blacks meant trouble, that they could more easily organize, revolt, and begin to ...
There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...
Gloria Feimster, a 92-year-old Raleigh native, told WRAL News she discovered part of her grandmother’s story lives in the Library of Congress. Her grandmother, Emma Blalock, was interviewed in 1937 ...
When Dionne Babineaux began combing through the “Slave Narratives” compiled in the late 1930s by the Work Projects Administration, formerly known as the Works Progress Administration, she had no idea ...
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