How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism
By Henry Louis Gates Jr. April 2, 2019 During an interview with Chris Rock for my PBS series African American…
Ernest Withers: Undercover Agent for FBI or Forced to be a Spy?
By Sybil C. Mitchell, The New Tri-State Defender Published January 24, 2019 On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King…
Oil industry woos SC African-Americans to support offshore drilling
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-Daniel Island, speaks to the crowd at a rally against off-shore drilling held in Columbia in February.…
‘They was killing black people’ In Tulsa, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history still haunts the city with unresolved questions, even as ‘Black Wall Street’ gentrifies
By DeNeen L. Brown September 28, 2018 The black city council member driving a black SUV came to a dead…
Next year marks 400 years since first African slaves arrived in Virginia
By Deneen L. Brown The Washington Post Exhibition at the Hampton History Museum. The first documented Africans to arrive in…
The Secret to Keeping Black Men Healthy? Maybe Black Doctors
In an intriguing study, black patients were far more likely to agree to certain health tests if they discussed them…
Black Enterprise Unveils Nation’s Largest Black-Owned Businesses For 2018
A scene from Bridgewater Interiors L.L.C., one of the “BE100s” (Image: Bridgewater Interiors) In many ways, 2017 proved to be…
The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A.
By Richard Brody July 20, 2018 Ivan Dixon’s “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” from 1973, displays the bedrock…
Why I don’t understand the black affluent class
The black middle class is talking of values and civility as many Americans of colour continue to languish in poverty.…