The following are important stories on race that have been selected to inform and educate our readers: Current news, historical perspective, book/video favorites, collegiate issues,…
Perri Small from Chicago’s powerhouse WVON interviews Ralph L. Crowder III about his new documentary film, “The Lost Negroes of North America.” The upcoming documentary…
President Trump is a big-city guy. He made his fortune in cities and keeps his family in a Manhattan tower. But when Trump talks about…
Although often not covered in the media, the African immigrant community is facing mass deportations in the era of Donald Trump. While the immigration debate…
The US Census Bureau plans to redefine ‘white’ to exclude people with Middle Eastern and North African origins. It’s a reminder that the identity has…
Columbia University associate professor Dr. Chris Emdin says the “white hero” narrative is setting up both teachers and students for failure. “There’s a teacher right…
Republican leaders in the House have been huddling over the last few days in a frantic search for enough votes to win passage of their…
Executive Summary – African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated….
Scott Shepherd is a former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee, but now refers to himself as a reformed racist. Shepherd’s troubled…
Liberals believe they’ve debunked the stated rationale of Donald Trump’s so-called “immigration ban,” which has been revised to try to pass legal muster this time…
At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., a printer, suspected to have been hacked, spurted out anti-Semitic fliers in January. At Central Michigan University in Mount…
Folks, we have been here before. After Ronald Reagan, a celebrity-turned-politician, carried 49 states in his devastating defeat of Walter Mondale in 1984, Democrats were…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named…
LOUISVILLE — A remarkable experiment in school desegregation has thrived for four decades in this Kentucky city and its suburbs, surviving fierce resistance from the…
Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia struck a resonant historical note last year when he proclaimed June 12 “Loving Day,” in commemoration of Loving v. Virginia,…
James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn’t over. Fifty years ago he was the intense man from Harlem who wrote, in essays…
In this revealing documentary, veteran journalist Bob Herbert examines the often heroic efforts of black families to pursue the American dream in the face of…
ACCRA, GHANA — At the end of a globetrotting career that took U.S. civil rights pioneer and author W.E.B. Du Bois from his home in…