From Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm’s way has helped galvanize Americans ...

A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement ...

The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser ...

Born in 1950, Readus Fletcher experienced his share of racial discrimination as a young man, but he also saw the dismantling ...

Bad Bunny made history at the Super Bowl on Sunday, giving voice to Puerto Rican history and culture, and doing so in Spanish ...

By not going down more obvious routes, the exhibition, which places nine Confederate monuments in dialogue with 19 artists, ...

Many great TV shows have come and gone over the last 10 years, each bringing its own unique cast of characters to the screen.

How newly released footage contradicts the federal government’s narrative of the day a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot a Chicagoan five times. 🗞️ Plus: The Trump administration cuts millions in ...

The arrests of two Black journalists for doing their jobs mark a new chapter of an age-old struggle for democracy, inclusion and unflinching truth that traces back to the pioneering journalism of Ida ...

A hidden passage in Manhattan’s Merchant’s House Museum confirms its role in the Underground Railroad, the first such find in over 100 years. Learn more inside.

Whoever posted a video on President Trump’s social media containing a racist animation of the Obamas as apes committed an own goal that overshadowed what otherwise would have been a great week for the ...

This little-known 1860 photograph offers a revelatory, full-length view of Lincoln from before he was elected president.