Ida B. Wells

How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago.

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.

T. Thomas Fortune changed Black History, and seems to have been forgotten.

A documentary attempts to remember forgotten lynching victims.

Lies about history long protected lynching.

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.

Thomas Moss’ lynching, like many others in the South, was a punishment for becoming an economic competitor to whites.

Joyce Chaplin on the malevolence of American goodwill.

Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.

In 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.