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Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About Black People
Yet he’s drawing a growing number of young Black voters.
By Jameelah Nasheed
Trump Embarrassed Himself in a Room of Black Journalists
And the NABJ shouldn’t have invited him in the first place.
By Sierra Lyons
Why I Study the Bones of Enslaved Human Beings
Evonne Turner-Byfield is confronting anthropology’s racist, colonialist past.
By Ezra Lerner
What Does Juneteenth Mean to the Incarcerated?
More than 150 years after the end of slavery, the U.S. still mass imprisons Black men.
By Elsabet Franklin
Afro-Latinx Youth Are Reckoning With Colorism in Their Communities
"For a long time, I didn’t feel comfortable being me.”
By Zoë Watkins
Inside This City’s Historic Move to Provide Reparations
The funding comes from a tax on legal marijuana.
By Rita Omokha
Why U.S. Cities Are Still So Segregated
Learn how the practice of redlining continues to shape America.
By Jameelah Nasheed
New Year’s Has a Very Different History for Black Americans
From Heartbreak Day to Freedom’s Eve.
By Jameelah Nasheed
Dismissing the South as ‘Trump Country’ Is Just Plain Wrong
This region is where the Black radical tradition was born.
By Taylor Crumpton
Publicly Lynching Black People Was Once Common Practice in the U.S.
It "functioned as a tool of domination."
By Jenn M. Jackson