Ta-Nehisi Coates

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.

Much is at stake in understanding the history and relationship between black superheroes and black revolutionaries.

Why do white people love Black Panther, just as they love Star Wars?

Christopher Priest broke Marvel's color barrier and reinvented a classic character. Why was he nearly written out of comics history?

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.

Though there are practical obstacles to school integration, it's not an unreachable ideal.

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

On these pages you will meet Monroe Nathan Work, who lived from 1866- 1945. This website is a rebirth of one piece of his work.

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

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or activ...

Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control.