In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, both per capita and by volume, making up close to five percent of the world's population yet more than 20 percent of the world's ...

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