W.E.B. Du Bois

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.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.

"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.

Commemorating the event that hardened the lines of segregation in the city.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.