Resistance is NOT futile. These programs speak of those who overcame.
David Blight’s biography Prophet of Freedom describes Frederick Douglass’s journey from slavery to abolitionist leader. Radical women take center stage in Mikki Kendall’s graphic history book. Suketu Mehta, meanwhile, explains how migrants benefit us all.
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