Commentary: How forgotten Black history has been recovered by rogue scholars
by Jermaine Fowler, Los Angeles Times
Mar 01, 2023
3 minutes
I teach history, but I am not a historian — at least not in a traditional sense. I’ve defended no dissertations and have no Ph.D. But for the past decade, I have been poring over primary source documents, conducting interviews and compiling my findings to create an ever-evolving historical archive.
That places me within a long legacy of Black public historians and citizen scholars constructing Black history beyond academia, away from the claustrophobic confines of
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