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The movements of its free and enslaved residents, even when and where they could bury their dead, was highly regulated in an attempt to preclude insurrections.

This community existed in an area gutted by immanent domain when the city took the land…

Daitokuzan Johoji Temple is the official name of this sacred space. The name was changed after Nun Shibatani's predecessor passed on to her the responsibility for this temple. Accepting the mantle bequeathed to her, Nun Shibatani nicknamed the place,…

Skih protest includes an LGBTQIA sign that reads: Some parents are their child's first bully. It is a small protest but significant in that Sikhs, a small American minority, are marching. The same sign also states: 'GSA's save lives.' This phrase…

Slumming is the concept of people seeing 'how the other half lives.' ...[and] Heap sees four phases of slumming... The red light phase ran from the 1880s to WW1, which overlapped the bohemian phase during the 1910s and 1920s. The Negro phase, perhaps…

"For white managers and field staff at all levels, it’s essential to work through your own white privilege and “white fragility.” Why? For life-long learning. And, to send a positive message to the communities you’re serving that you are, indeed,…

Sylvia Rivera was one of the earliest and most influential transgender rights activists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969. She was close friends with Marsha P. Johnson, and spent almost her entire life fighting for civil…

On the way to rebuilding the temple that is now his body, he stumbled upon his soul . . . Both Sides Now is a vivid and compelling account of one man's search for wholeness, leading through multiple, complex, and life-threatening surgeries that…

Preventing Indians from having long hair and paint. William Atkinson Jones, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, wrote this letter to the superintendents of all federal reservations and agencies in January 1902.

Nikole Hannan-Jones, the author, uses the onset of British slavery in 1619 as a lens by which to examine contemporary problems in America.https://1619books.com/#about-the-1619-project

In the first year of the two-spirit powwow, twenty-four participants registered.

In the second year, 2020, two-spirit participation jumped to sixty-four registrants.

It was a victory when the 2nd Annual Two-Spirit Powwow took place in…

At least 15,000 of those nonwhites who were not allowed to be buried in the white church cemetery were buried instead in an area reserved for Africans that was excavated during construction. Only a few graves are visible in the memorial, and some of…