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Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

How the presumption of bystanders’ responsibility crystallized into the predominant opinion.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.

Every statue defends an idea about history, but what if those ideas are wrong?

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

After two decades in a filing cabinet and three next to a parking lot in Baltimore, the author returns to New York.

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.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

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

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

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

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to a device to torment people in custody, racist police brutality runs deep.