Brentin Mock

The Universal Hip Hop Museum is poised to bring an economic and cultural infusion to the borough where the genre was born and bred.

What happened after the destruction of Greenwood, once home to some of the wealthiest African Americans in the US.

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.

Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District was razed by the federal government 65 years ago. Now developers are testing the question of how to correct for a racist past.

There’s a fatal history behind the claim that African Americans are more resistant to diseases like Covid-19 or yellow fever.

White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, then created a Jim Crow credit system.

For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.