A decade before the Civil War, the leading Southern periodical De Bow’s Review published a series titled Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race—a much-needed study…

rotests over police killings of unarmed African-Americans continue to erupt across the nation, largely thanks to the organizing efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Two years ago, Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters had an idea: Young black men needed to hear from other black men about their struggle, their triumphs, their pain and their successes.
It’s official: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to reclassify the internet as a “common carrier”…
Two years ago, Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters had an idea: Young black men needed to hear from other black men about their struggle, their triumphs, their pain and their successes.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission will vote this week on a net neutrality proposal that could shape the future of a free and open Internet.
There is nothing, nothing like seeing a handsome, straight, cisgender, wealthy, able-bodied white man cry to remind us how horrific black people had it during the civil rights movement.
Malcolm X is being remembered this week across black America on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. It is a sober time to commemorate the murder of a sober…

A year ago, on a bleak and chilly February morning, North Carolina’s Forward Together movement, a coalition of progressive groups with broad support among liberal-minded Carolinians…
Two new studies by political scientists offer compelling evidence that the rich use their wealth to control the political system and that the U.S. is a democratic republic in name only.

That’s the slogan that Syriza, the left-wing Greek coalition party, used throughout the campaign to distinguish itself from its fear-mongering opponents on the right.