The article discusses the significance of Juneteenth, the commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.

The article discusses a Yiddish play called Mississippi, which was based on the real-life case of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African Americans falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931.

Dr. Lonnie Bunch III, Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discusses the historical and current state of Black-Jewish relations in America, exploring the existence of a shared agenda.

In his book "Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea," Mitchell Duneier explores the shared history of the word "ghetto," originally inhabited by Jews in Europe and later associated with poor black neighborhoods in America.