likely because of the Black Codes. By 1850, 48% of the heads of household in Austin enslaved people, and one fourth of the population was enslaved. The Gideon White / Martin Moore family had no ...

On the wall in Lena Waithe’s Los Angeles office hangs an image of Lorraine Hansberry, the groundbreaking Black queer playwright whose work, “A Raisin In The Sun,” became the first play ...