W.E.B. Du Bois

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the city simmered with racial strife that was further spread by yellow journalism.

The career and legacy of a Black critic who argued for the elevation of Black performance.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.

The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

An activist, writer, doctor and intellectual, James McCune Smith, born enslaved, directed his talents to the eradication of slavery.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

Law enforcement and the urban-rural divide.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.

The answer may lie in the ear of the beholder.