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Yep, this one’s a classic, and it’s well worth the read. In this epic book, Isabel Wilkerson traces the migration of 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, ...

Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson started a movement to teach Black history in America’s schools. First called Negro History Week and now Black History Month, it has been an oasis ...