Keisha N. Blain

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

In a white supremacist society, where Black people are still fighting for freedom, the Black family offers protection and, at times, a space for resistance.

Mississippi makes a move to confront a shameful episode from the past.

Joetha Collier, a young Black woman, was killed by a white man in 1971, near the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was murdered. Why isn’t her case well-known today?

In rejecting Plessy’s argument that the Jim Crow law implied Black people were inferior, the Supreme Court upheld the notion of “separate but equal.”

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”

The activist did not learn about her right to vote until she was 44, but once she did, she vigorously fought for black voting rights

Two dozen experts consider the George Floyd protests in light of protests past.

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

In order to understand America, we have to understand the struggles of the black working class.

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.