The Negro Motorist Green Book was a must-have for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era and some Cincinnati businesses contributed to it.

The book’s title, In the Light of Dawn, references the Dawn Settlement, a hopeful name given to a community founded largely ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

But it can also mean subservience to others because of their race. The term comes from the 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave perceived as too passive toward the ...

The performance from the 37-year-old rapper sought to tell a story of black Americans and their place within US history, and ...

For example, one of the world’s first slavery films dating from 1903, is an adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In that film, Black people are ...

One of the most iconic American novels is said to have been inspired by a man who was once enslaved in Montgomery County. Josiah Henson is the inspiration behind Harriet… Read More ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired generations of literary activists, but she left behind a complex legacy. This hour, The Stowe Center joins us to talk about the past and future of literary activism. ...