The 1908 riot started by a white lynch mob in Springfield destroyed a Black neighborhood and led to the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.
The executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora says the goal is to “celebrate the rich Black art landscape” of the region.
“I’m standing behind a Black woman to be president of the United States, and it doesn’t make me any less of a Black man,” said the...
For the Artist’s Questionnaire series, T asks a creative person a set of questions about everything from their earliest works to their daily routine. The artist...
When Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed Black teenager, was fatally shot in 2014 by a white police officer and his body left in the street under...
Her career began during apartheid and outlived it, reaching a personal milestone in a blockbuster movie and its sequel.
For years, before he won the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Donald Trump was something like the spiritual leader of the Republican Party’s right-wing base. He...
When I was a child, my dad sat my older sister and me down in our living room and explained to us the rules of race...
With her response to Donald Trump’s comments about her background, Kamala Harris showed that Blackness doesn’t need to be explained or defended — an idea underscored...
Rivals and critics have for years accused Kamala Harris of shifting her personal identity for political advantage, with those attacks escalating dramatically online since she became...