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In February 1875, Alabama’s black Republican legislators sent a petition to the US Congress, noting that "the Democratic Party of Alabama has made, and is now making, a deliberate and persistent attempt...to change the penal code and criminal laws of Alabama so as to place the liberty and legal rights of the poor man, and especially of the poor colored man, who is generally a Republican in politics, in the power and control of the dominant race who are, with few exceptions, the landholders, and Democratic in politics." The petition goes on to say that if this action is allowed to stand, the war to preserve the Union would have been a "grand mistake."

Learn how people in the late eighteenth-century used race science, social Darwinism, and eugenics to justify their ideas about membership.

A profile of Michael Brown published two days after he was killed features recollections from friends and teachers and  details of the community's response.

Find out about the Inuit cultural practice of throat-singing, Katajjaq, and what is gained from reviving this tradition.