Fannie Lou Hamer

Joetha Collier, a young Black woman, was killed by a white man in 1971, near the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was murdered. Why isn’t her case well-known today?

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

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.

But today’s activism reflects longstanding commitments to freedom.

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

“Whenever there’s a tragedy in black America, there’s always been an uptick of black history courses."

The history of patrols, body cams, and more.

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

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

A new book details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.

It’s in vogue to call the new movement against police violence "leaderless." But as Ella Baker taught us, it's more correct to say that it has many leaders.

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.