Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

The city’s board of supervisors moved forward a draft plan with suggestions on how to compensate Black residents for centuries of slavery and systemic racism.

An astonishing one-third of Capitol artworks depict slaveholders. Will they remain? It’s largely up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont will all change their state constitution.

Recent critiques of “presentism” fail to see that we can’t divorce the past from the present—and that supposedly objective scholarship has long promoted racist narratives and suppressed Black history.

Kris Manjapra’s new book, “Black Ghost of Empire,” examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is ultimately a refusal to acknowledge that the country’s classrooms have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

Juneteenth is an opportunity to recover the possibilities of history

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

The Biden administration is reviving the legal and moral case for slavery reparations.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

The Capitol insurrection was born of a violent minoritarian tradition that is as American as apple pie—and it isn’t done yet.

A turn toward nationalism following the MAGA storm on D.C. erases the Black radical tradition of rebellion—and endangers its future.

Three new books show how Northern states betrayed Black people, and why many found Mexico a safer destination.

Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.

In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.

The millionaire players’ anti-racist protest shows how race and class are intertwined for Black Americans.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader

Republicans like Tom Cotton gloss over the religion’s role in establishing slavery and perpetuating white supremacy.

Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.