More from Kali Nicole Gross and co-author, Daina Ramey Berry, forthcoming from Beacon Press (2020), A Black Women’s History of the United States.
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Explores the chilling case of a murder and dismemberment that took place in Philadelphia in 1887.
Examines the historical origins of African American women’s experiences with criminal justice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Meghan Markle did not silently abide the increasingly outrageous, unceasing torrents of racism unleashed upon her and her new family (likening baby Archie to a monkey, for example). She did what African-American women have been doing for centuries: She fought back.
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In the heart of Perth-Amboy, New Jersey, sits a cemetery where Thomas Mundy Peterson is laid to rest. In 1870, he became the first African American to vote in an election. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.
