Black Power

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.

The political rumblings beneath his 1969 album, "Hot Buttered Soul."

How the 1960s Black Is Beautiful movement inspired her latest Fenty fashion collection.

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.

The young Civil Rights activist was killed in the dead of night by police and the FBI. Who was Fred Hampton?

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

Much is at stake in understanding the history and relationship between black superheroes and black revolutionaries.

Marc Dollinger argues that the conventional wisdom of Black and Jewish harmony during the civil rights era is flawed. The real story has lessons for today.

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

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.

At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.

The myth of the “dependent” poor.

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

What does Black History Month leave out?

A look into neocolonialism in modern America.