From LIFE to Vogue to “Shaft,” Gordon Parks brought black life into focus.
Read MoreMa Rainey sang, lived, and became the blues. But there was more to her than that “Slow, Drivin’ Moan.” (As seen in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”)
Read MoreWhen Jim Crow whitened American newspapers, the Chicago Defender spread news about “the Race.”
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