Stories - Life Stories
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Our stories are about how people make sense of their own lives, how they can shed light on our lives, and how we are connected to one another, to history, and to the larger human story.
Constitutional compromises on slavery and anti-slavery interpretations of the Constitution
Gordon Parks using Life Magazine to confront White America with images of racism
Subjugation of women as a tool of political control and opposition to modernization
Diverse forms of resistance by enslaved people throughout American history
Adopting the stage name Sheen to avoid anti-Latino prejudice in New York
Janet Cooke's fabricated story and the racial dynamics behind it
Trump's claim of doing more for Black people than Lincoln
Being accused of not being "Black enough" by Black nationalist peers
Racial opposition to Obama's presidency and the Affordable Care Act
Reflecting on racial progress and social change over 50 years
“Someone told me the story about the child throwing starfish back into the ocean one at a time. 'It makes a difference to this one.' That's kind of how I've looked at it ever since. I can't be Dolores Huerta or Martin Sheen, but I can do what I can do in the rooms I find myself in to look for that starfish.”
Noah Wyle
Influence of jazz musicians' struggle for creative and business control
Witnessing poverty and racial violence in Mississippi as a young lawyer
Lincoln's evolving views shaped by encounters with enslaved people
Racism as a continuation of systemic exploitation rooted in slavery and capitalism
Tracking police violence data and the laws that protect officers from accountability
Enslaved people's symbolic relationship with Lincoln and freedom
The deep entrenchment of white supremacy in American culture and capitalism
Silently enduring a beating during Auschwitz roll call as an act of defiance
Legacy of Black feminist activism for younger generations' self-worth and justice
Self-emancipation by enslaved people and its impact on the Civil War
