W.E.B. Du Bois

An activist, writer, doctor and intellectual, James McCune Smith, born enslaved, directed his talents to the eradication of slavery.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.

Radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

The answer may lie in the ear of the beholder.

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

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.

Commemorating the event that hardened the lines of segregation in the city.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

The righteous rage of John Brown.

On the relationship between African American music traditions and one of the most infamous slave revolts, the Stono Rebellion, in colonial South Carolina.

A new book details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.

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

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.