Slave codes were a method of protecting the investment of white enslavers in the Colonies by restricting the lives of enslaved people in almost every imaginable way. The codes restricted enslaved people’s ability to move around, or...

How an enslaved woman became one of the most important social justice activists in American history.

The Nutcracker. A story that spawned a thousand childrens books and countless adaptations for the stage, and then eventually made it to the silver screen. But, the origins of the Nutcracker isn’t the history of one nutcracker story. In...