Congressional Black Caucus

How Mickey Leland and the Congressional Black Caucus paved the way for today's progressive politics.

Explore the groundbreaking career of the first Black woman to seek the U.S. presidency.

Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, constantly defied those who tried to constrain her due to race and gender.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

Class conflict undermines assumptions about political solidarity.

A few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged.

Infrastructure has a long history of cloaking racism and preventing justice.

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.

Thirty years after the police beating of Rodney King, it's clear that shock and anger don't translate into meaningful reform.

The Combahee River Collective and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie agree that the wealthy and powerful will hijack activist energies for their own ends.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.

The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.