Jesse Jackson Sr.

The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.

Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found in the disinvested ruins of the city a new egalitarian form of politics.

What obligation does the US have toward people who are uprooted by war?

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene.

PBS NewsHour coverage of the hot wars of the Cold War.

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.

Don Cornelius had faith that Black culture would attract a mass audience, and a belief that Black culture should be in the hands of Black people.

From My Lai to Desert Storm to WMDs.

Historians have demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation of the U.S. But many of those same ideas have also been vital to combating white supremacy.

All along the way, his eye is trained on moments of calm, locating an inherent grace, style, and sublime beauty in the Black everyday.

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

What’s at stake in debates about the meaning and visibility of the Black Santa.

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

Jaime Harrison lost to Lindsey Graham but expanded Democrats’ vision of what’s possible in the Deep South.

A brief history of a political dog whistle.