The Liberation Station bookstore - North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookseller - will launch with a three-day celebration that kicks off Saturday.

Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.

The United Nations migration agency says a record 6.9 million people have been displaced by conflict across Congo, making it one of the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crises.

Black people are generally pictured as doing anything but relaxing—as being attacked, or agitating, or performing. The Black Rest Project aims to widen the lens.

“The Bluest Eye,” which was published fifty years ago, cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at the center of the story.

Sam Gilliam, who profoundly reshaped the idea of painting by liberating the canvas from the frame and rendering it in three dimensions, died of kidney disease at his home in…

We fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future.

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of Black families.

White photographers took hundreds of photos of the race massacre. Why are they and the whites they photographed still anonymous?

Last Thursday, when a Georgia college student couldn’t find a babysitter, her professor volunteered to hold the student’s baby while teaching a three-hour anatomy class.

Today there are just 45,000 African American farmers. One man is fighting to save them

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved

Mr. Freeman, who lived in the District, found a special interest in photographing and collecting quilts from the rural South.

When people think back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, they often remember just the bullet points: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and voila. But on this episode, we're hearing directly from the many...

It happens in modeling, advertising, the big screen and the small stage. The industry is making progress, but challenges still exist

Last month, the Review published “The Hold of Slavery,” an essay by Saidiya Hartman about writing her landmark first book, Scenes of Subjection (1997). (A

Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more

A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning. 

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.[1. See Millery Polyné, From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 (Gainesville: University Press of...

The City of Yanga was founded after a group of enslaved Africans, led by Gaspar Yanga, rebelled against colonial rule.

Coming from the Congo, I knew where an essential ingredient for atomic bombs was mined, even if everyone else seemed to ignore it.

As the first Black woman to earn tenure in particle theory or cosmology theory, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is breaking barriers in physics while achieving her lofty childhood dreams.

Rosenwald schools, named for a philanthropist, were funded mostly by Black people of the segregated South.

Colleges like Harvard and Yale hoard endowment funds, gobble up real estate, and churn out far more management consultants than social justice warriors.

Growing up in the South, she was inspired to love history early in life by her parents, maternal grandparents, an environment

The richest 400 Americans have the wealth of about 43 million Black folks. The Mullens want reparations to change this.

Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding...

Descendants of enslaved people in Georgia protest vote for lifting protective laws, threatening a 230-year-old heritage

A new exhibition will be the first survey of the cultural movement in New York City since 1987

She was among a small group of students who restarted the Freedom Rides after the first attempt ended in violence and nearly destroyed the movement.

The "Capital of Black America" was also a world capital, thanks to the influence of West Indian–born artists and writers like Claude McKay.

"So many people don’t think about food as political."

Baldwin insists that we stop pretending children are incapable of understanding the complexity of the world around them.

Thavolia Glymph opened a Wednesday talk with an untold story from the Combahee Ferry Raid, in which Harriet Tubman helped rescue hundreds of persons enslaved during the Civil War. 

Two new biographies, “Walk With Me,” by Kate Clifford Larson, and “Until I Am Free,” by Keisha N. Blain, recount Hamer’s struggle to open up voting to Black people in Mississippi and argue for the...

The historic Black cemetery outside Philadelphia is still in use, and the often-used paper records are in danger of disintegrating. A GoFundMe could help.

Nearly 65 years after the Broadway playwright’s property lawsuit against the city, her family is continuing the fight to reclaim not only their land, but their legacy.

Writer Saidiya Hartman details the importance that deep research and archival materials have on her writing practice.

In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.

A $2 million grant will be used to digitize Howard’s Black Press Archives, the largest collection of newspapers from the U.S., Africa and the African diaspora.

In a meditative new biography, DJ and scholar Lynnée Denise examines the mysteries and trials in the life of the legendary performer.

9th Wonder’s run as a major figure in hip-hop – from music to academia – continues.

The stunning trove of texts sheds new light on Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book of poetry

People of color are more likely to be exposed to air pollution than white people, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor.

A From the Heart Productions, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.

A conference series on stewarding the historical and cultural record of Black life in the Americas.

A street artist rendered W.E.B. Du Bois' words into Arabic calligraphy.

How did Africans become “blacks” in the Americas? Those who were forced into the ships of the infamous slave trade probably thought of themselves

North Carolina’s law disenfranchising many people with felony records was created after the Civil War for explicitly racist reasons, and remains discriminatory to this day, the judges wrote.

The digitized newspapers in this open access collection offer insight into the country’s diverse civil rights movements following the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The playwright died at the age of thirty-four, but she left behind enough genius for lovers of literature to follow like a trail of generous crumbs.

An on-air career seemed unlikely for a Black woman in the 1970s. It didn’t help that she had been imprisoned for armed robbery. But she broke barriers.

From a report on sundown towns to interviews with Angela Davis and Emmett Till’s mother, here are highlights from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

The number of displaced people by the rains in Somalia has gone up by 100,000 in just one week, bringing the number to close to 650,000 people.

The evidence that racism is directed at black people to impede their social and economic progress keeps growing (and growing), but discrimination persists. That’s because isolating racism as a cause...

Americans who marched on Washington 60 years ago under a blazing sun recall the day they were part of a turning point in history

The archives of the historically Black Tuskegee University recently released recordings from 1957 to 1971, with a number by powerful civil rights leaders.

For black women, the fight for reparations is not a new opportunity, it is a long-lasting battle for social justice.

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.