Malcolm X

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

How James Baldwin confronted America's most exceptional lie.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.

The women of May 19th bombed the U.S. Capitol and plotted Henry Kissinger’s murder. But they’ve been long forgotten.

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

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

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.

CNN's firing of Hill fits into a troubling history of repressing black voices on Palestine.