W.E.B. Du Bois

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like "The Birth of a Nation."

"You can't disentangle blackness and California."

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.

The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.

Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

Not a white equivalent of Black History Month, but a better understanding of the concept of whiteness and the harm it inflicts.

What remains of Hugh Magnum's work documents how much was shared in common by people who racist laws treated as separate.

Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.