In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression…

Young black and brown boys don’t always see reaffirming messages in society that allow them to believe that they can grow up to become successful. Without…

How Bill Clinton and Black Lives Matter protesters view the 1994 crime bill is in part shaped by their different generational experiences. Read and view…

JACKIE ROBINSON premieres Monday-Tuesday, April 11-12, 2016, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET on PBS. Filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon discuss their new film, JACKIE…

In this installment of our “Conversations on Race” series for Op-Docs, Asian-Americans talk about how stereotypes unfairly confine them — particularly the one that brands…

Rick Ector trains new gun owners at a range just outside of Detroit. He supports more African-Americans getting permits to carry concealed weapons. African-Americans are…

In a Women’s History Month special, we speak with author, activist and scholar Angela Davis. For more than four decades, Davis has been one of…

Make my day! Three of Aretha’s greatest songs and performances. View the video here  

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Memorial at historic Metropolitan AME Church Saturday, March 19, 2016. Powerful and moving tribute to the life and work of Frances…

Watch them explain why they’re both and they’re proud! Watch here

The poet Sonia Sanchez rose to prominence as a figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, where she raised her voice in the name of…

America’s problem with race has deep roots, with the country’s foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of…

In a new video with MoveOn, Demos President Heather McGhee and Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow Ian Haney Lopéz show how the single most important solution to economic inequality isn’t…

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone…

In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world….

In this week’s cold open, ‘Saturday Night Live’ took on both Ben Carson’s endorsement of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ surprise win in Michigan. Read…

A psychological look at how the water crisis is affecting the citizens of Flint, Michigan. Watch the video here.

Wilhemina’s War is a documentary about Wilhemina Dixon, a daughter of sharecroppers who becomes a force in her family’s fight for survival from HIV and…

A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America’s first black presidency, from “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on…

Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in…

On “Real Time,” Bill Maher showed a video of Hitler speech “translated” into English — and it sounded very familiar. Read more and watch the video…

On Super Tuesday, two commentators on CNN argued about the Ku Klux Klan. On television. In America. In 2016. Read more and see the video…

So, as much of the free world is by now aware, Chris Rock, the skilled comedian and satirical social commentator, hosted the Oscars. Read Janell…

A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America’s great promise of equality has always rung…

“Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people.” A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking…

A speech delivered on January 26, 2016 at the annual meeting of the Stellenbosch University Convocation, a statutory body comprised of alumni and fulltime academic staff…

The Testament Project is an exploration and a re-conception of contemporary black American masculinity. Black men in America are portrayed in the extreme – either…

Separated by decades, Eldridge Cleaver’s, ‘Soul on Ice,’ and Kendrick lamar’s performance at the 2016 Gammy Awards share much in common. Watch the performance here, also see “Deconstructing…