bell hook’s Salvation suggests that Black scholars never questioned whether slavery affected Black people’s capacity to love:

Dr. Crystal Feimster is a scholarly expert in:

The term Maafa means: 

Scholar bell hooks’ book, Salvation explains:

Dr. Feimster suggests we need to ask ‘different questions’ to get a fuller understanding of what violence looked like during the Civil War:

Stamped From the Beginning suggests that even some famous Black leaders who fought for freedom exhibited ‘racist ideas about Black people’:

Dr. Feimster’s phrase, ‘we are in the archives’:

Juneteenth:

Dr. Feimster:

The author of Stamped From the Beginning argues that historically, racist ideas led to the creation of racist policies: