J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...

Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States...

Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....

The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...

Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...

In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...

Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...

Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...

Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...

In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?

Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...

Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?

Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...

Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

"Force and Freedom" explores why for many Black abolitionists, slavery could only be obliterated through violent means.

Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.

By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...

Jones weaves together the legal and constitutional dimensions of citizenship...