Conspiracy Theories Are An Irresistible Labor-saving Device

What Happened In The Interim Is, Billions Of Records Have Been Digitized. Historians And Scholars Have Always Used Genealogical Records To Tell The Story Of American History. It Takes Months And Years Of Research. I Can't Even Tell You How Laborious That Is. You Have To Be Somebody Who Has A Lot Of Free Time, Like A Professor Who Can Take Tenure Or Someone With A Great Deal Of Leisure.

In America One Drop Of Black Ancestry Makes You Black.

What's Fascinated Me From The Time I Was A Little Kid Was The Way We Construct Our Lives Through Stories.

An Impressively Researched And Documented Collection Of The Finest Thought Produced By Writers Throughout The African Diaspora. A Magnificent Achievement.

I First Learned That There Were Black People Living In Some Place Called Other Than The United States In The Western Hemisphere When I Was A Very Little Boy, And My Father Told Me That When He Was A Boy About My Age, He Wanted To Be An Episcopal Priest, Because He So Admired His Priest, A Black Man From Someplace Called Haiti.