David Levering Lewis

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.

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

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

The confluence of Black modernity, self-determinism, and belongingness of Harlem's housing.

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right,” W.E.B. Du Bois said in his June 1926 lecture.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.