Life in the Colonies: Work

The Thirteen Colonies were built by a diverse workforce including skilled laborers, indentured servants, enslaved people, and criminals, in stark contrast to modern labor...

Alice Walker

As the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Alice Walker helped to bring the Black experience to readers across the globe. A true trailblazer, her work continues to entertain and...

Injustice: Roger Taney

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney’s unjust majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford shockingly declared Black individuals weren’t citizens, solidifying slavery’s grip and pushing the nation closer to Civil...