Vann R. Newkirk II

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

The soul singer was an architect of the civil-rights movement as much as a witness to it.

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era that is often contrasted with his legacy.

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.

How one black woman's campaign for justice after a rape by six white men shaped the struggle for equality—and the #MeToo movement.

Governor McAuliffe has embarked on a campaign to grant clemency more often, and to restore the civil rights of convicted felons.

Memorials to the Lost Cause have always meant something sinister for the descendants of enslaved people.

Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.