Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Alex Gibney’s “Musk” will arrive in United States theaters next month. Universal says it remains committed to releasing it overseas but has yet to set dates.

MacArthur fellow Fleetwood (Marking Time) delivers a brilliant account of growing up in a majority-Black Ohio neighborhood in th...

Policing in Navy Yard is already out of control, and criminalization is likely to only make things worse.

The World Press Photo winner by Carol Guzy shows us all the human cost behind political decisions

Filmmaker Lynn Novick sifted through thousands of historical images to create her upcoming documentary series on the American justice system.

Ernest Cole, The True America (1968-71)

An internal legal document offers a glimpse into the agency’s strategy to shift the role of National Guard troops.

A new exhibition traces a century of recruitment and removal, from the 1930s to the 1950s

3101 13th Street, NW Photos by Michael Janis / WGS From an email: "Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Columbia Heights has reopened after its major modernization, and there is a striking new piece of...

How writing to a person who was incarcerated gave my entire family a “life-changing friend.”

Photographer Andy Aitchison’s book Incarcerated explores how Victorian prison infrastructure has persisted and what these old buildings mean for the people who live and work inside

The disclosure is the latest indication that sweeping noncitizen-voting claims promoted publicly by the Trump administration were based entirely on preliminary or unverified federal data.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

In an existential crisis for the American Experiment, public rage against Big Tech is a political earthquake no one saw coming.

To mark World Photography Day, we look back at 200 years of photography — from the earliest experiments in the 1820s to the images and technologies shaping the medium today.

This is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.

Profile. By Dernoral Davis. Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925—June 12, 1963), Civil Rights Movement activist in Mississippi.

The National Gallery of Art presents around 70 historical images in 'Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography.'

Filmmaker Lynn Novick sifted through thousands of historical images to create her upcoming documentary series on the American justice system.

Gordon Parks brought urban poverty to light in 1968’s LIFE magazine. Discover the story behind "A Harlem Family."

Photographer Dawoud Bey tells Q guest host Garvia Bailey how history, media misrepresentation and a desire to channel the perspectives of past Black residents shape his work, from his early street pho...

Virginia is one of a handful of states that takes the right to vote from those convicted of a felony, and then requires gubernatorial approval to restore those rights.

The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

This is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.

The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The documentary, screening at MOPA, part of the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, explores Kwame Braithwaite's long life and career.

The depletion of staff and resources at various agencies leaves the government underprepared to respond to attempts to influence elections by China, Russia, and others.

At just 16 years old, I made a drastic decision that derailed my life. But I'm the beneficiary of a law that allowed me to redefine myself.