Black history

On upending the accepted narrative of the movement.

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.

A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian.

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

During the Jim Crow era, working-class Washingtonians' recreation options were far more limited—and dangerous.

The real history of Juneteenth is much messier—and more inspiring.

Historic Black towns should not have to sell off pieces of the past to underwrite the present.

Exploring recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres.

For members of the Hip Hop generation who came of age during the Black Power era, “reality rap” was an entry into the political power of Black history.

Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis over a proposed African American studies course is a complex series of debates about slavery and race in classrooms.

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum.

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

On Martin Luther King's use of radical ideas to create an understanding of the history of America.

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

Black history lives in memories and minds. COVID-19 has endangered those traditions.

Black park rangers are working to ensure that many important, and difficult, stories aren’t lost.

One of Berkeley’s most popular professors, he brought passion and nuance to his award-winning study of the marginalized and the oppressed.