Angela Yvonne Davis

In Hip hop’s “golden era,” the period from 1987 to 1994, rappers used their platforms to bring attention to issues plaguing poor and working-class Black communities.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

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

The huge, declassified document includes death threats, red scare performances, and extensive investigation into her Yahoo! Groups fan site.

An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.

The Black feminist collective's 1977 statement has been a bedrock document for academics, organizers and theorists for 45 years.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

"What the Catholic church wanted us to understand about women and anger—that we simply didn’t experience it—backfired spectacularly."

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?

In 1971, a wave of Black artists released explosive new work that put its politics front and center.

"The Dead are Arising" may be the best Malcolm X biography yet. But its author seems unsure of how to write about a religion outside the American mainstream.

Two new movies emphasize the singer’s spirit of defiance and political courage.

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.

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.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.

By the end of his life, inspired by the radicalism of the Black Panthers, Baldwin was again ready to proclaim himself a socialist.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

A look at how the word, a surprisingly recent addition to the English lexicon, made its way into the dictionary.

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

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.