“We're the Only Colored People Here”
1945
Read a short story that would grow into Gwendolyn Brooks’s novel Maud Martha (1953).
“Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines”
by Faith Ringgold
View a fantastical homage to Harlem history through this work of art in the New York City subway.
“I Too”: Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation
by Steven Tracy
Explore Hughes' "I, Too" poem, its connection to Walt Whitman, and its role in affirming Black identity in America.
Clarksdale: Myth, Music, and Mercy in the Mississippi Delta
by Shelley Ritter
Read about musician Muddy Waters, the blues, and the historical exhibits at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Robert Johnson and the Rise of the Blues
by Elijah Wald
Read about Robert Johnson and the rise and evolution of blues music.
The Men of Company E
with Matthew Pinsker
Explore different points of view of Black soldiers in a postwar photograph.
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