Ralph Ellison

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

Sun Ra, a seminal artist of afrofuturism, embraced a unique vision of blackness.

“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

The blockbuster refuses to flatten its characters into simple heroes or villains — and that's exactly what makes it so refreshing.

An analysis of the Carnegie Commission's 1967 report shows that public broadcasting has always been a politically fraught issue.

Interpreting dreams for fun and profit. The importance of oneiromancy (dream reading) to American betting culture.

In researching his family's past, the author learns of his ancestors' efforts to thrive despite the confines of racial oppression.

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.