Malcolm X

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

The history of unarmed police brutality is rooted in anti-Blackness.

Undocumented Black migrants struggle to have their asylum rights recognized in the United States. Groups have been asking President Biden to stop deportations.

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

The city’s move to rename schools will provide invaluable ammunition to Fox News.

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

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

How James Baldwin confronted America's most exceptional lie.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.

The women of May 19th bombed the U.S. Capitol and plotted Henry Kissinger’s murder. But they’ve been long forgotten.

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

“Whenever there’s a tragedy in black America, there’s always been an uptick of black history courses."

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.