Nation’s oldest Black-owned bookstore stands as a beacon
Marcus Books, the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the United States, has been a cultural cornerstone for over 60 years, amplifying Black voices and fostering ...
Sam Cooke’s Classic ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ Inspires New Picture Book — See Inside! (Exclusive)
Illustrator Nikkolas Smith tells PEOPLE he hopes the forthcoming book “can act as a supplement to Mr. Cooke’s timeless anthem ...
Get R.F. Kuang’s acclaimed Poppy War trilogy for only $4
The trilogy is boldly violent, brutal, and grim, yet utterly compelling and hard to put down. And I’m not the only Polygon staffer who thinks so. Our guides editor Ari Notis recently described the ...
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Laws Against Black Literacy in Pre-Civil War South Still Haunt Education, Expert Says
The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...
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In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...