Why was Haiti’s revolutionary overlooked by historians for so long? For nearly 80 years no scholar has written an English-language biography of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint…
Denzel Washington delivers what is forecasted as another Oscar-worthy performance in the upcoming Fences, the big-screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1983 play that also marks…
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE FIRST DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE INFAMOUS 1971 ATTICA PRISON UPRISING, THE STATE’S VIOLENT…
You won’t find a documentary over the next few months that’s more important than “I Am Not Your Negro.” Raoul Peck uses James Baldwin’s unfinished…
Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail. It has also been ranked as one of the 10 worst jails in America. Of the more…
The Rev. William Barber gave the sermon Sunday at a 5 p.m. service staged by the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice. Barber, who founded the…
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk . America’s racial…
If one studies history, this is not a surprising outcome,” award-winning racial justice reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones says about Donald Trump’s election win. She points to…
With just days until the election, we spend the hour with the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and talk about his surprise new movie, “Michael…
Watch the complete roundtable discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party with four former Panthers who spent decades behind bars as political…
“What are you?’’’ “Are you adopted?” “What are you mixed with?” Many photos and stories submitted to “Historically Black,” The Washington Post Tumblr project, have touched…
Every man — especially every white man — can identify with Trump’s misdeeds more than we’d like to admit . Remember that scene in “The…
Alabama is the home of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, designed to fight voter suppression. But since 2014, Alabama citizens have been required to present…
Milwaukee is one of the most politically polarized and racially segregated cities in America. Paul Lewis and Tom Silverstone discover a mix of alienation and…
Last Wednesday, a black man was walking down a street in suburban Edina, Minnesota, when a plain clothes officer grabbed him and refused to let…
The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and that is already beginning to have profound social and political implications. At 45…
President Barack Obama visited the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro for the first time Tuesday to participate in a forum on…
Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal calls from prison to discuss mass incarceration under Obama, being denied hepatitis C treatment, and the 50th anniversary of the…
With not-so-civil disobedience, Nat Turner forcefully fought for his people’s freedom more than 100 years before there was such a thing as a civil rights movement. He has…
Ava DuVernay’s new film “13th” takes audiences on a trajectory from the 13th Amendment to mass incarceration. As Ava DuVernay’s new documentary “13th” opens at…
Mario Woods was shot more than 20 times by San Francisco police in December of 2015. Months after his death, his mother, Gwen Woods, is…
Iconic hard-rock crew Living Colour have been making waves with their version of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Who Shot Ya?” a cover of the classic 1995…
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “ENGROSSING AND RELENTLESS”—The Washington Post “AMBITIOUS, MAGISTERIAL” —Starred Kirkus Review “MUST FOR SERIOUS READERS” —Library Journal “HEAVILY RESEARCHED YET…
The largest prison work strike in U.S. history has entered its third week. Organizers report that as of last week at least 20 prisons in…
WARNING: CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGE Killings in Chicago have hit a 20-year high as the grim toll for homicides passes 500. The BBC’s Ian Pannell…
The police killings of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have drawn attention to policies backed by Republicans…
Common and Stevie wonder have unveiled a devastating new video for “Black America Again.” The stark video opens with footage of Alton Sterling killed by…
The obscure research that predicted Donald Trump. Watch the video here