James Baldwin

The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."

A musicological conversation about the history and social value of Black music.

More diverse regular history classes are the key to a historically literate population.

A lethal incident of police brutality in Miami in 1979 offers just one of countless examples of the reality generations of African Americans have faced.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

Sun Ra, a seminal artist of afrofuturism, embraced a unique vision of blackness.

In a sermon two weeks after MLK's funeral, Walker urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.

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

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

Odetta’s artistry was a weapon in the Civil Rights struggle, and was crucial to the era’s politics.

Black America talks back to "The Good Gray Poet" at 200.

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge.

The white historian’s responsibility to radical empathy and refuting the “invented past”.

Looking to history for an analogue to Trump’s victory does a disservice to the present and the past.

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.