Wanda has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African American researched by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
For these scholars class is always in session.
(New York Times) — Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck in conventional racial categories and his disaffiliation with black culture made him […]
Read the controversial op-ed from Henry Louis Gates about slavery.