James Baldwin

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

A newly restored novel tests an old dynamic between readers and the author of “Native Son.”

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

Group biographies and the female friendship vogue.

The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.

She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.

When we mythologize the ’60s, we lose sight of what’s truly ahead of us.

Not a white equivalent of Black History Month, but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts.

From MLK's assassination to the Charleston Massacre, we've heard the same excuses for racial violence.

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

A new book exposes effects of anti-Black myth-making and calls for an end to the family policing system.

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name.

The way we learn about our collective past is under attack thanks to new leadership at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

On Audrey Clare Farley’s “Girls and Their Monsters.”