A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins.

This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “Was Integration the Wrong Goal?” ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” — Carter G.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MALCOLM X: Faced with the brutality that they've experienced in this country for 400 years, and the inability or unwillingness of the government to protect us against ...

I began with a quote from Dr. Woodson because I want readers to know who he was and what motivated him to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become Black History Month, first celebrated ...

Woodson, “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” 1933 Carter G ... and even suppressed by the writers of history books,” decided in 1926 it was time to celebrate Black achievements in American ...

Another one is Carter G. Woodson’s “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” as well as “Fugitive Pedagogy” (by Jarvis Givens), which is a more recent book. What role do you see education ...

The culture wars are heating up the stacks as more than a third of the books banned during the 2023-2024 school year featured ...