11+ hour, 23+ min ago  (885+ words) The Rev. Ed King, a minister from Mississippi who was one of the few white people to play a leading role standing with Black leaders during the bloody civil rights struggle in his native state, died on July 4 in Ridgeland,…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1239+ words) A major publisher appeared to pull a prizewinning history book about a prominent South Carolina slaveholding family and its role in the abolitionist movement, after several scholars accused the author of misleading readers about details that were central to what…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (828+ words) At this year’s Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans, attendees lined up around the boulevard. Michelle Obama, the former first lady, discussed the politics of perception, the actress Keke Palmer taught a Pilates class and Cardi B, Monica and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1921+ words) Hanna Rosin: Happy 250th birthday, America. On this momentous occasion, I’ve been thinking about how a country should be remembered, which is a fraught question right now in politics, in high-school curricula, and possibly at your barbecue. I definitely have at…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (548+ words) “Under the flickering light of the North Star,” Douglass wrote, “stood a doubtful freedom — half frozen — beckoning us to come share its hospitality.” Standing center stage during a recent rehearsal, Zasha Singh, 11, recited her poem “New York Is My Home…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (317+ words) Throughout its eight-season run on ABC, Black-ish touched on all kinds of sensitive topics, from postpartum depression to racial slurs to police brutality. However, one Season 4 episode was shelved for years, reportedly for being too politically charged. After butting heads…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (956+ words) Outside the blindingly white antebellum columns of the Alabama State Capitol on a recent Saturday, Martese Chism stood in the Southern heat with thousands of others, rallying for voting rights. It was a show of defiance amid a sweeping attack…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (802+ words) The sun blazed over Margate, England, last weekend on one of the hottest days in May in Britain in over 80 years. Unsurprisingly, thousands of people had arrived in this seaside town about 70 miles from London to enjoy the beach. Others…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (485+ words) Linda Greer can still vividly remember the Bedford-Stuyvesant of her youth, where almost every family she grew up around was Black and the bars in Brooklyn, like the one her parents owned, the Tip-Top Bar and Grill, were not a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1124+ words) It is not just any Tuesday. It is 9 p.m. on a dreary night in Shadow Hills, just miles away from the lush foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. The delicate pitter-patter of a drum’s cymbal is the only sound to break through…...