Sidney Poitier

When Sidney Poitier slapped a white murder suspect on screen, it changed how the stories of Black Americans were portrayed on film.

Mario Van Peebles' "Outlaw Posse" is the latest attempt to correct the erasure of people of color from the classic cinema genre.

The fleet provided activists with reliable transportation in hostile and often dangerous environments.

She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?

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

Comedian Richard Pryor's performance of Blackness throughout his career.

James Baldwin's dispatch from MLK's funeral foreshadowed an America we may never escape.