Magazine preview · Issue One arrives November 1

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Black Thread is the monthly magazine from HistorianSpeaks — deeply reported stories on Black history, politics, and culture, written for curious readers and grounded in sources. Founding members make Issue One possible.

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We call it Black Thread because the story is one continuous line. From Africa and the Middle Passage to the revolution in Haiti, the movement for justice in America, Black Britain's rise, and the news still being written this week — it is one story, not a stack of separate ones. Every issue picks up the thread where the last one left off.

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Still Rising: Black Britain's Global Resilience

From the fight for redress to the Windrush scandal, police brutality, and a cultural presence felt worldwide — a taste of the long-form storytelling coming in every issue.

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In Issue One

Politics — The third-party question (in progress)
Culture — Sylvester (in progress)
History — Affirmative action: origins to today (in progress)
World — Global intolerance (in progress)
Sport — HBCU sports (in progress)
Style & Society — Anita Hill and the testimony that changed the workplace (in progress)

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