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Black History Month
Bomb Threats Menace Historically Black Colleges During Black History Month
This month has seen more than a dozen bomb threats against historically Black colleges and universities.
Indiana School Allows Parents to Opt Students Out of Black History Month Lessons
The school district said it's examining the matter, assuring parents that it's dedicated to “teaching about the facts.”
Wisconsin GOP Rejects Black History Month Resolution But Honors Rush Limbaugh
One Democratic lawmaker condemned her GOP colleagues, telling them they now “own” Limbaugh's rhetoric and racism.
Biden Spent Black History Month Deporting Black Immigrants. Where’s the Outrage?
Anti-Blackness is baked into the immigration system, and ICE has merely operationalized it.
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz on Her Father’s Legacy and New Docuseries
A new series makes the case that two of the three accused of assassinating Malcolm X are actually innocent.
Black Students in the Mississippi Delta Still Face Education Inequality
Nearly 33,000 Mississippi students attend a school district rated as failing. Nearly all of them are Black.
Respectability Politics Is Losing Ground in Black Liberation Struggles
By turning away from middle-class white values, Black activists have set our political imagination free.
“Always in Season” Looks at 2014 Hanging in North Carolina and Racial Terrorism
A disturbing new documentary examines lynching in the United States both past and present.
Long Before Sanctuary Cities, Here’s How Black Americans Protected Fugitive Slaves
Before the abolition of slavery, free black people openly defied the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that sanctioned slavery.
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Black Struggle Is Not a Sound Bite: Why I Refused to Meet With President Obama
As a radical, Black organizer, I do not feel that a handshake with the president is the best way for me to honor Black lives.