Despite the messages we hear from social scientists, policymakers, and the media, black Americans do in fact get married—and many of these marriages last for

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly inc

Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the

In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship. According to the 2010 US census, more than seven

As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial s