2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’

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“...to be revisited again and again…The candy-colored pages and straightforward stories are hard to resist…” –The New York Times “...diverse collect

A history of the Black Power movement in the United States traces the origins and evolution of the influential movement and examines the ways in which Black Pow