The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian…

Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively…

Senator Elizabeth Warren Remarks at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate September 27, 2015 ***As Prepared for Delivery***  and  See Video…

Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to…

ELLISVILLE, Miss. — The dark S.U.V. rented for the occasion stopped outside the one-story City Hall. A wheelchair was rolled up to receive a petite…

Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a…

In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more…

At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism…

Race Baiting 101 is a short documentary that obliterates conservatives and exposes real race baiters. We have all seen comment threads, headlines, and news scrawls…

The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, this widely acclaimed work has established itself as…

Why America Needs a Slavery Museum Aug 25, 2015 | 18-part series Video by The Atlantic The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and…

CHRIS HEDGES, HOST, DAYS OF REVOLT: Welcome to Days of Revolt. I’m Chris Hedges. This is part two of our interview with Dr. Cornel West,…

Malcolm delivered this speech in 1965 on the very night that his home in New York was firebombed. He was tired and worried, yet he still showed…

In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first…

In this soul-searching memoir, Possibilities: A Search for Personal Liberation, Dr. Ronald J. Sheehy, highly respected scientist, teacher and educator, unlocks the door to personal…

Race – The Power of an Illusion    The You Tube video is an introduction to the larger series.     An eye-opening three-part series confronting our…

Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject…

Unfortunately, racism isn’t ‘over’ in America. We aren’t there yet. Everyone who has ever occupied, loved, feared or resented a human being housed in a…

“Sparing neither family nor self . . . he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people’s favor. ….

Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in…

Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when…

“Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . [It] demonstrates, as powerfully…

This is a seminal study which compares the development of white supremacy in Southern Africa and North America. It is well researched and provides the…

He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father…

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites…

In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last…

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child – the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment- weaves a tale about…

Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder’s charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes…