James Baldwin

Odetta’s artistry was a weapon in the Civil Rights struggle, and was crucial to the era’s politics.

Black America talks back to "The Good Gray Poet" at 200.

On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge.

Looking to history for an analogue to Trump’s victory does a disservice to the present and the past.

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.