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How often is perhaps the greatest novelist in modern American history also among its most insightful documentarians of the color line and its wages? The answer, to my knowledge, is once, so far: Toni Morrison, the 86-year-old Nobel Prize winner and… → Read More
LeBron James, Odell Beckham Jr. and others are also featured in the campaign. → Read More
It was Independence Day eve, but that didn't stop a black legislator from being treated like a would-be criminal in her own district. → Read More
My grandfather grew up just miles from where Rice died and had the same last name. Tracing their ties took me to Valdosta, Georgia, and a new lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, seeking answers. → Read More
The wound opened in America on April 4, 1968, has never been fully healed. → Read More
Quantifying the debt that Marvel's 'Black Panther' owes to the low-budget black action movies that came before it → Read More
This marks the second consecutive year in which members of Super Bowl-winning teams have refused to be honored by President Donald Trump. → Read More
The Charleston Nine is the collective name for the nine people murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. → Read More
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning author who has written several acclaimed novels, including → Read More
Marsha P. Johnson was a gay liberation activist who was instrumental in the Stonewall rebellion of 1969. → Read More
Mary Mahoney was the first black licensed nurse in United States history. → Read More
The debt that the civil rights movement and its later iterations owe to Recy Taylor is incalculable. → Read More
Mic’s latest editorial effort — the Black Monuments Project — aims to correct this sordid legacy through a blend of history and imagination. → Read More
Where 'In Bruges' and 'Seven Psychopaths' stumble almost imperceptibly, 'Three Billboards' plummets. → Read More
The 'New York Times' was fascinated over the weekend by the tension between being a white supremacist and a normal human being. This tension does not exist. → Read More
Donald Trump has found new clout with his base by framing black athletes as ingrates. These three UCLA basketball players fell right into his hands. → Read More
It did not do a great job. → Read More
A little racial equity goes a long way. → Read More
Muslims and nonwhite people face large-scale punishment following crimes by people who look like them. But after Texas, white life will likely continue uninterrupted. → Read More
Ed Gillespie has race-baited his way to political relevance. Conservatives are mad that his opponents are using it against him. → Read More