Lauren Michele Jackson

Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?

When the night-club sensation became a Resistance agent, the Nazis never realized what she was hiding in the spotlight.

In the new nonfiction collection “You Don’t Know Us Negroes,” what emerges is a writer who mastered a Black idiom but seldom championed race pride.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

A newly restored novel tests an old dynamic between readers and the author of “Native Son.”

A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout life phases and political cycles.

Cartoons have often been considered exempt from the country’s prejudices. In fact, they form a genre built on the marble and mud of racial signification.

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

It happens every year.

Are you part of the problem?