Shoppers in New York City. Photo by Stephen Yang/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Some early shoppers might have headed straight from their Thanksgiving dinner table to the mall on so-called Gray Thursday, but stores unleashed a torrent of traditional Black…

Pilgrim leader William Bradford, later the Governor of Plymouth Colony, reading the Mayflower Compact on board the Mayflower off the coast of what became known as Massachusetts, 1620. Photo by MPI/Stringer via Getty Images. Paul Solman: It being Thanksgiving,…