Julia Métraux

A new book takes on a diagnosis invented to cover up police killings: that men of color are “combusting as a result of their aggressiveness.”

In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients.

For members of the Hip Hop generation who came of age during the Black Power era, “reality rap” was an entry into the political power of Black history.

A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.

Telling a spooky story around a campfire—or in a dorm room—may be the best way to keep a local legend alive.

A violent confrontation between the IWW and the American Legion put organized labor on trial, but a hostile federal government didn’t stop the IWW from growing.