Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

Revisiting Meredith v. Fair, we get the inside story of how critical race theory was developed in the years after Brown v. Board of Education.

The Black feminist collective's 1977 statement has been a bedrock document for academics, organizers and theorists for 45 years.

Barbara Smith, a key contributor to contemporary Black feminist thought, formed the Combahee River Collective to address Black women's interlocking oppressions.

Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

A look at African-American scholars' contributions to health disparity discourse.

Pulitzer-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on the battle for the past and the fragile state of American democracy.

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

From today's vantage, the remarkable achievements of the writer and social justice activist are finally coming into focus.

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.