James Weldon Johnson

How an automated algorithm constrained Congress for a century.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

An excerpt from a new book that explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

Rumors ran wild as white mobs assaulted black residents who in turn fought back, refusing to be intimidated.

The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.

In 1919, a brutal outburst of mob violence was directed against African Americans across the United States. White, uniformed servicemen led the charge.

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

A century after the tragedies that shaped the nation's race relations.

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.