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February 24, 2022

Before 1619: The secret history of the first African Americans

If one were to view the history of Black people in America through a "racial lens," you wouldn’t start with…
April 13, 2012

Esperanza Spalding performs on 'The Daily Show'

Esperanza Spalding was a guest on 'The Daily Show' and performed her songs 'Black Gold' and 'Crowned and Kissed'...
March 14, 2012

Derrick Bell: Right wing propaganda smears late Harvard professor

OPINION - Derrick Bell and fellow law professors in the 70s and 80s understood that though blacks had technically gained…
March 12, 2012

Derrick Bell's widow defends him against 'radical' accusations

VIDEO - In an interview on MSNBC's 'The Ed Show,' Janet Dewart Bell, the widow of Harvard Law School professor…
March 8, 2012

Harvard video used to attack Obama provides no racial 'smoking gun'

OPINION - The shocking videotape unearthed by the late, right wing gadfly Andrew Breitbart, that was supposed to finally prove…
March 7, 2012

Obama pushes for diversity at Harvard in unearthed early-90s video

VIDEO - The website BuzzFeed has obtained a video that shows Barack Obama as a student at Harvard Law School…
October 7, 2011

Derrick Bell, law professor and rights advocate, dies at 80

NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights scholar who became the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School has…