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
In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies…
In 1976, Chicago provided vouchers to African-American families to move into predominantly white suburbs … How a little-known public housing program from the 1970s is…
The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and…
In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education declared that separate schools for black students and white students should be dismantled with “all deliberate speed.” However,…
In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South–and particularly its history of slavery–turns the focus on his own…
Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for? Watch the video here
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for…
Today ( September 9) prisoners in at least 24 states are set to participate in a nationally coordinated strike that comes on the 45th anniversary of…
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), challenges us to grasp the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that…
In this web-only special, we continue our look at this month’s killing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, of Khalid Jabara and last year’s triple killing in Chapel…
Students at Pretoria High School for Girls are demonstrating against what they call racist school policies. They say they are not allowed to speak their…
For a man the Producer’s Guild called the “most prolific independent filmmaker in American cinema,” African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux is a relatively obscure figure in…
The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner, in Requiem for a Nun. Though Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation put an end to…
Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump’s support of the “alternative-right” movement is “taking hate groups mainstream.” She delivered a blistering denunciation of Donald Trump’s personal and political history…
A New York Times bestseller “An impassioned analysis of headline-making cases….Timely, controversial, and bound to stir already heated discussion.” —Kirkus Reviews “A thought-provoking and important…
Historian and museum director Lonnie Bunch shows Scott Pelley a capital of the slave trade and explains why slavery is a story of strength in…
In New Jersey, lawmakers have recently introduced legislation that would require the state’s attorney general to review every death at the hands of law enforcement….
A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as…
When Hillary Clinton addressed the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists on August 5, 2016 in Washington, D.C., she…
In Brazil, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team has pulled off a historic feat, winning the team gold medal by the widest margin of victory since…
As a child, Congressman John Lewis, the son of sharecroppers from Pike County, Alabama, was turned away from his local public library—it was for whites…
See how your state is doing regarding the racial divide between blacks and whites. Read here