In this conversation Ashia S. Ajani (Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants, Timber Press, 2026) and Beronda L. Montgomery (When Trees

The power of the song ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ has endured for more than a century. The new documentary, ‘A New Day Begun: The Black National Anthem’ traces the song’s origins in the Jim Crow era a...

On a sweltering Friday morning at a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, nearly 100 protesters gathered to memorialize Kohen Kartier Wiley.

News Editor Ashton Pittman argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act “relies on feigned colorblindness to racist systems,” enabling even Jim Crow-style policies…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections.

A largely forgotten figure of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Renaissance, Holt was a Black female musician, composer, critic and free spirit, and she has a story that deserves to be told.

As we barrel towards July 4th, Trump wants the celebration of our country's 250th anniversary to be not only about him but also about America as a white republic.

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Southern states are taking advantage of a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions in order to quickly re-make their congressional maps ahead of November’s midterms. In effect, the political power of many Black Americans are being taken away. “All eyes ought to be on the South,” Harvard professor Imani Perry tells Antonia Hylton. Princeton professor Eddie Glaude adds that what’s happening is “a political will to white power.”

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Read an extract from Imani Perry's Black in Blues: How a Colour Tells the Story of My People (Allen Lane, 2026).

Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

A special concert celebrating pianist and composer Randy Weston's contributions to the jazz canon and his enduring musical legacy.

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

Books by Edgar Gomez, Maris Kreizman, and Zefyr Lisowski are among the year's most celebrated nonfiction

Everyday experiences of Southern Black life.

Fiction

In Black in Blues, cultural critic and MacArthur fellow Imani Perry joins forces with novelist and historian Dolen Perkins-Valdez to craft an extraordinary medi

Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”

The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.