When Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Fred Gray was her lawyer. Now he’s being honored for a lifetime of civil rights…
By overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court has thrown the issue of abortion back to the states – and made it harder for Black and brown women to…
By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement — An advisory group of Texas educators has proposed changing the word “slavery” to “involuntary relocation” after the Texas State Board of…
Like Trump, Boris Johnson bulldozed institutions and opposition deemed to stand in the way of his vision. By Sasha Abramsky, Truthout — As I began writing this column from London…
By Xinhua — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday warned of a “dire” rise in hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the number of…
The tacit questions were: who is black and why? And what does being black signify? Black, it was commonly understood,… By Catherine Hall, London Review of Books — In the early 18th century,…
The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could fundamentally change how the electoral process works in the U.S. By Sharon Zhang, Truthout — As the Supreme Court prepares…
Hennepin County, where George Floyd was murdered by former police officer Derek Chauvin, is set to make history by electing its first sheriff of color. By Jeroslyn Johnson, Black Enterprise…
These men and women played an important role in shaping America in its infancy, but do not have the name recognition of Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson. By Olivia B….
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom. By Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, The Atlantic —…
Three new histories of British colonialism and slavery – by Vincent Brown, Thomas Harding and Kojo Koram – reveal the empire’s corrosive effects on today’s politics. By Laleh Khalili, New…
Akron police shooting of Jayland Walker sparks protests. “I have never seen the kind of grief and the kind of pain that I’m seeing today,” the family’s lawyer told BuzzFeed…