W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right,” W.E.B. Du Bois said in his June 1926 lecture.

Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found in the disinvested ruins of the city a new egalitarian form of politics.

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.

The US Civil War was a revolutionary upheaval that crushed slavery and stoked hopes of a broader emancipation against the rule of property.

On Martin Luther King's use of radical ideas to create an understanding of the history of America.

Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

The importance of an unambiguous report that cannot be weaponized by Trump supporters.

From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

What did German listeners hear when African American singers performed Schubert or Brahms?

A brief scholarly overview to understand the contours of white backlashes, their historical impact, and the ways they shape the world we inherit.

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.

The charges, while provocative, offer a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.

“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?