In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been...

Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, didn’t end until 1945...

In my quest to find Green Cottenham, I also discovered an unsettling truth that when white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company...

fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery’s full grip on U.S. Society – its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in...