Charlie Pérez-Suárez got his first job as soon as he turned 16, a way to help out his parents, immigrants from Michoacán, México. That job, in a drugstore in the Chicago suburb of Warrenville, would ...
Diggs also often functioned as Du Bois’s secretary, as she did in 1941 in a letter to Helena Jacobs, advising her via the words of Du Bois to use his autobiography “Dusk of Dawn” as a possible source ...
I recently learned that in the months before his 1968 assassination Robert “Bobby” Kennedy Sr. changed his position on the death penalty after reading Albert Camus, the French philosopher and ...