W.E.B. Du Bois

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?

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.

You can work around some of the holes this lack of access creates, but it takes years.

In his new book, "The Crooked Path to Abolition," James Oakes argues that the Constitution was an antislavery document.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

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.

Of course, Juneteenth should be recognized as a Black holiday belonging to Black people. But this is not a day purely of joyful celebration.

“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.