A Harvard Law School professor examines the impact that Brown v. Board of Education has had on his family, citing historical figures, while revealing how the reforms promised by the case were systematically undermined.
America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and…
Juan Williams is interviewed as part of the Booknotes Oral History Project on 29 January 2015. Mr. Williams discusses his appearance on C-SPAN's Booknotes program on 11 October 1998, where discussed his book "Thurgood Marshall: American…
Leon Decosta Dash is interviewed as part of the Booknotes Oral History Project on 26 June 2014. Mr. Dash discusses his appearance on C-SPAN's Booknotes program on 10 November 1996, where he discussed his book "Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in…
Nathan McCall is interviewed as part of the Booknotes Oral History Project on 14 August 2014. Mr. McCall discusses his appearance on C-SPAN's Booknotes program on March 6, 1999, where he discussed his book "Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man…
In his New York Times bestseller, Losing the Race, John McWhorter, a Berkeley linguistics professor, tried to make sense of why so many African-Americans continue to define themselves by race and examined what he calls the cult of Victimology,…