No one wants to return to the system of American apartheid. Public education, with its glaring inequities, is a reminder of all the work left undone.

33 pictures from the Selma to Montgomery marches.

In Chicago, black people were pariahs whom no one wanted to live around. The housing authority turned that prejudice into full-blown racism.

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out when it launched, and what pressing concern led to its demise.

The veteran human right lawyer Chokwe Lumumba was transforming Jackson when he died at 66.

Black America’s most eminent historian Dr. John Hope Franklin often told his students that the past is prologue to the future. His message was essentially a lesson for all of us to examine our…

Recent settlement to dismantle the desegregation efforts that had historic start in 1957

On June 22, 1937, Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock with a right to the jaw to become the world heavyweight champion. At a time when Major League Baseball was still a decade from integration, Louis’ victory in Chicago’s Comiskey Park was a triumph for black America, and for racial...

Sixty years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling. In a unanimous decision, the Court struck down the concept of “separate but equal”…

The words used to describe race and ethnicity are ever in flux. A favored term one decade becomes passé the next and not nice soon after that. But, the motivation for change remains constant: Respect.

How Jonathan Chait and other Obama-era progressives misunderstand the role of white supremacy in America's history and present

The Beginning of the Slave Trade While slavery as a practice existed in various degrees throughout time, the brutal and inhumane practice of the slave trade began not with Portugal, but according to many well-respected scholars, with Arabs. As Elikia M’bokolo, the renowned historian from the Democratic Republic of Congo, wrote in Le Monde diplomatique: “The African continent …

For years the U.S. government allowed racist white lynch mobs to murder Black men, women and children for practically nothing. The lynchings were so absurd one could argue that Black people’s lives were little to no value at all.  In fact, between 1882 and 1930 in just the 10 southern U.S. states of Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, …

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Recent settlement to dismantle the desegregation efforts that had historic start in 1957

Each Black History Month brings with it new ponderings of a seemingly eternal question: Do we really need a Black History Month? The voice of God himself, Morgan Freeman, thinks we don’t. There’s even a documentary film that actively rallies for the demise of the holiday. I sympathize. But I...

History has sanded off the movement's rough edges. A new book rights the balance with images of African Americans fighting hard for freedom.