The 38th Congress took action on one of America’s most enduring and vexatious issue on January 21, 1864 by passing the 13th Amendment to the…
As Donald J. Trump seeks to position himself as a “law and order” candidate, there are echoes of Richard Nixon, a candidate who sought to…
Leave it to an eighth-grader to explain a concept that many adults still struggle with. For a contest at his school in Atlanta back in…
We discuss the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality with Cornel West. Cornel West is…
Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade call for action to stop gun violence. Watch the video here.
A common response to the outcry over police misconduct is to almost immediately blame the victim – he had a criminal record, he didn’t listen…
Bill speaks with scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad about white supremacy in America and the power of what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the “unarmed truth.”…
The Destiny of the People of Color, is part of a larger collection of the works of James McCune Smith, black intellectual and abolitionist, edited…
As has been poignantly said by many social observers and scholars, race is an integral part of America’s DNA. Below are some of what we…
An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854. Touch the bottom of the document for additional pages.
In 2009, Barack Obama was sworn into office as the 44th president of the United States. While the upcoming presidential election could be the first…
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,”…
The month of June marks both the birth and death of a key black figure in American history: James Weldon Johnson. This is a beautifully written…
Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people…
The archivist stumbled across the file in a stack of boxes on the second floor of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in…
On June 15, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting presented the Marlon Brando Award to Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, and Sonia Sanchez. But before the…
Review: ‘Germans & Jews,’ a New Generation Continues a Difficult Conversation – Ken Jaworowski / NYT Don’t expect simple answers in “Germans & Jews.” Just…
The assault on the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is officially the deadliest mass shooting in American history — with 50 people dead (including…
Former President Bill Clinton has never been better. View here. Billy Crystal has never been funnier. View here Dr. Kevin Cosby delivers incredible speech. View…
The first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. View the Video Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005)…
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed….
Music legend John Legend reads Muhammad Ali’s speech against the Vietnam War in 1966. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and…
Although many twenty-first century readers are aware of his work only through his introduction to Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, Dr. James McCune…
A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history… McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study that should…
Although this HBO film , starring Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, was first shown on Saturday, May 21, it is worth the effort to see…
There isn’t much to say about this video mash-up of Donald Trump comments and 1960s civil rights protests. It speaks for itself in the starkest,…
James Baldwin appears in Boston public television producer Henry Morgenthau III’s “The Negro and the American Promise,” alongside Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. The…
Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a paralyzing fear of calculus, but that didn’t stop either actress from playing two of the…