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The Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition

Annette Gordon-Reed New York Review of Books
W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present a “graphical narrative” of the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

Not Mad Enough

Elaine Margolin Los Angeles Review of Books
This book, by two pioneering feminist literary critics, is an attempt, writes reviewer Margolin, "to follow the cultural history of feminism from the movement’s earliest days up to our present time"

Every Year, This Italian Town Hand-Delivers Salt to the Pope

Karen Burshtein Atlas Obscura
Salt has an important and complicated history in Italy—it’s been the cause and casualty of endless wars. When Cervia became part of the Papal States, its salt became “Il Sale dei Papi, salt of the pope.”

After Lorca

Patty Dickson Pieczka Bitter Oleander
Patty Dickson Pieczka’s poem “After Lorca” marks the Spanish poet’s murder by Spanish fascists on August 16, 1936.

Can We Touch Your Hair?

Skye Jackson Rattle
“I wrote this poem in response to the sense of horror I felt,” says New Orleans poet Skye Jack, “and in memory of my ancestors who would not have been given the privilege to refuse their touch.”