Photojournalist Ron Tarver spent years photographing people largely ignored in mythic depictions of white cowboys and the American West.
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Riots by proslavery forces raged for three days in the nation’s capital after the capture of a ship bearing fugitive enslaved people. The president, a slaveowner himself, tried to calm the city.
When the Cherokee Supreme Court ruled that tribal elected officials no longer had to be Cherokee “by blood,” it was the latest chapter in a long-running fight over who controls tribal citizenship.
Can college professors rap their way into academic publishing? One professor makes an album to prove they can.
Thousands of racialized women around the world run mutual aid co-ops to help each other and develop their communities.
The camera has long been used to defy a media landscape steeped in negative portrayals of Black families.
Cameras played a critical role in the quest for social equality for Black Americans in the post-slavery era.
There aren’t just health care disparities between white and Black people. There are funding disparities too that make it harder for Black scientists to succeed in academia.
Rev. Warnock became the first African American to defeat an incumbent senator and the first African American to win a US Senate seat without prior electoral experience.
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
Some people wonder what they can do to support Black colleagues and junior employees who face institutional discrimination at work and elsewhere.
Although millions voted to put her face on the bill in an online poll, many still don’t know the story of her life and the role faith played in it.
US cities began naming streets in Black neighborhoods for Martin Luther King Jr. after his 1968 assassination. Researchers studying these areas 50 years later found entrenched deprivation.
The church has played a vital role in America’s civil rights struggle. It was the spiritual home to MLK, to the generations that shaped the vision of the late civil rights leader, and now to Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Pointing out the benefits of white privilege has become a racial justice rallying cry, but associating ‘white’ with ‘privilege’ in the classroom can harm academic performance among students of color.
Black people are skeptical about the new vaccines for many reasons. If public health leaders told the full story, maybe there’d be a higher chance that Black people would want to take the vaccine.
The influential civil rights group got its start following a wave of brutal white-led violence against Black people in Springfield, Illinois.
For his first presidential Thanksgiving, George Washington aimed to pull his country together in the face of the many internal divisions that could yank it apart.
A study of 800 Black American families shows early experiences of racism have long-term consequences for physical and mental health.
Is the public education that Ruby Bridges fought to integrate a relic of the past?
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