Martin Luther King Jr.

Why the policies of the Federal Reserve were a central focus for the civil rights movement.

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.

You cannot have reconciliation without empathy. And you can’t have empathy unless people know the past pain that informs our present.

Why New Orleans took down monuments that had been installed by supporters of the "Cult of the Lost Cause."

She saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

What does Black History Month leave out?

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

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

Activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

Richmond was the epicenter of black finance. What happened there explains the decline of black-owned banks across the country.

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?