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Michell Chresfield is a scholar of the history of racial formation and identity-making in 20th century America. She is assistant professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
A Cornell historian says one of the most important aspects of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy was his insistence on speaking up against social and economic injustice.
… with one of the earliest city films, Walter Ruttman’s Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), which screens on … digital restoration courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories Joyland (dir. …
Some Americans felt betrayed when Oprah Winfrey recently revealed that she had taken weight-loss medication, writes Adrienne Bitar, lecturer in the American Studies Program, in a CNN op-ed.
Democratic backsliding is occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries once thought immune to such forces – the United States among them, finds a new analysis led by Cornell political scientists.