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
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in…
A powerful message from a powerful voice. Very profound and an excellent point that needed to be made. Surprised it was given such little attention….
A U.N. official just spent 17 days traveling across the United States, and what a 17 days it was. As we’re accustomed to U.N. officials doing…
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from…
Across the political spectrum, observers agree, “she nailed it.” During her speech she talked about raising her daughters under the spotlight of the White House…
The 38th Congress took action on one of America’s most enduring and vexatious issue on January 21, 1864 by passing the 13th Amendment to the…
As Donald J. Trump seeks to position himself as a “law and order” candidate, there are echoes of Richard Nixon, a candidate who sought to…
Leave it to an eighth-grader to explain a concept that many adults still struggle with. For a contest at his school in Atlanta back in…
We discuss the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality with Cornel West. Cornel West is…