The Crisis

On the complex relationship between Black Americans and the Black church.

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

The NAACP investigates a race riot.

A look at how and why African Americans first started to abandon the GOP for the Democratic Party.

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.

This long overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.

The Great Emancipator's character and anti-slavery legacy has been questioned by Black Americans for over a century.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

How cars changed the lives of black Americans.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

Considering Du Bois' complex ideas on the role of black artists in the struggle against white supremacy.

From lynching photos to Black Lives Matter – what does it mean to look at images of African Americans being murdered?