
Three unarmed black men encountered a group of white men walking down a dirt road in Slocum, Texas on July 29, 1910. Without warning, and with no reason, the white…
Three unarmed black men encountered a group of white men walking down a dirt road in Slocum, Texas on July 29, 1910. Without warning, and with no reason, the white…
By Darryl Pinckney Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York City, 2012 In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” a poem published in 1936, a narrator speaks for those who struggle—the poor…
Above Photo: Ahmirah Porter, 9, of Flint stands outside City Hall to protest Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s handling of the water crisis. (Jake May/ MLive.com) Residents and advocacy organizations are seeking…
Above Photo: TheRealNews.com. How Organizing and Social Movements Drove Changes to Federal Policy on Solitary Confinement Alan Mills of Uptown People’s Law Center and Bernadette Rabuy of Prison Policy Initiative…
By Nicholas Lemann National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art ResourceW.E.B. Du Bois; detail of a drawing by Winold Reiss, circa 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois’s very long life coincided almost exactly with…
It’s Nation Time… Again In 2012 the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) convened State of the Black World Conference III (SOBWC III) at Howard University in Washington,…
By Jon Lee Anderson Before Michel Martelly was the President, he was Sweet Micky, a popular singer. Credit Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker A few months ago, a crowd…
By Amy Davidson Hillary Clinton speaks at a town-hall meeting in Iowa. CreditPhotograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty “Here’s the Senator’s ad,” Chris Cuomo, of CNN, said to Hillary Clinton, who was standing…
In the Sixties and even for a short time afterward, Blackness was conceived and engaged as a very serious and sacred thing. It was serious because it dealt with…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II National movement: Rev. William Barber (center) speaks to media at a Moral Monday rally in Albany, New York, in 2015. (Courtesy of North Carolina NAACP)…
January 26, 2016 Why did Flint suffer a water catastrophe that now requires that children be treated as if they had been poisoned?It wasn’t because the people were negligent….
By Jamil Smith In the last week or so, Bernie Sanders has been questioned twice on national television about high-profile endorsements that he didn’t win. Both times, he provided strange answers….