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…
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….
By Christine Emba Taking it for granted that when you’re shopping alone, you probably won’t be followed or harassed. Knowing that if you ask to speak to “the person in charge,” you’ll…
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….
By: Charles D. Ellison A voter, Treveyon Brock, casts his ballot as people wait in line at a polling place Nov. 4, 2014, near Ferguson, Mo. Admit it: When you finally…
By: Nigel Roberts Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, stands to the left of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on some issues. But many wonder whether he, after serving…