Martin Luther King Jr.

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?

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.

Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms.

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

Recovering black radicalism.