The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser ...

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Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist Nick Cave collected thousands of objects to mount an exhibition on memory and history. His giant mammoth sculptures are potent, timely symbols of ...

The character’s racial identity is at the heart of accusations that the film’s casting is “whitewashing.” But what does the ...

Resisting binary thinking doesn’t mean abandoning values. But it requires us to accept that life exists in a messy middle.

I n February 2016, after exchanging email pleasantries with the left-wing public intellectual Noam Chomsky and extending an ...

Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A ...