At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

A Times writer was browsing the gray columns of newsprint when a photograph transported him to the green infield grass of ...

Essential books about racism for all readers When it comes to understanding race and social justice in this country, authors ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

To John: Nobody in the Ohio State program is talking, but there's something very odd about Knowles' departure. Leaving to be ...

She did not. Greene was one of hundreds of thousands of light-skinned Black Americans who passed as white in the Jim Crow era. While speculation about Greene’s background circulated in her lifetime, ...

What Trump's order says, how local law enforcement is involved, ICE's efforts so far and what to do if you encounter ICE.

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...

White House Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller argued with CNN host Jake Tapper, saying public confusion about a new initiative was caused by liberal news sources.

For boomers, the rapid reversal of 1960s-era gains for civil rights, women, LGBTQ, etc., has unraveled the story of our ...

Oxford City Council have written to Jim McMahon MP to express their concern about the Oxfordshire County Council’s request to ...