I know that I consistently refer to white men who make racists comments as racists but I’m starting to rethink that.

“No scene from African American literary history is more familiar than that of Frederick Douglass’s learning to…

Guess who just ordered some Lawry’s for this white-ass awards season? That’s right—the NAACP!

In 1895, W.E.B. Du Bois became the first black student to earn a doctorate from Harvard. Over a century later, Queen…

Ava DuVernay is black, y’all.

While we focus on the history and legacy of slavery in the United States, it is sometimes easy to forget that the…

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OK, so I'll admit that maybe "on fleek" is over, but it just felt right describing a celebration of melanin in the…

“I now know what Frederick Douglass felt like in 1876 when Reconstruction came to an end,” says Henry Louis Gates…