While many hoped Barack Obama's presidency would usher in a post-racial period in America, law professor Randall Kennedy says the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. In The Persistence of the ...

On a stormy night in the spring of 1968, a weary Martin Luther King Jr. was summoned to Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. Striking sanitation workers—demanding higher wages and better working ...

yawned. The flag she flew was Dutch; her crew a motley. Her port of call, an English settlement, Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. She came, she traded, and shortly afterwards was gone. time, as ...

(James Brown, “Say It Loud—I’m Black And I’m Proud”). And, of course, Du Bois may not have been the original author of “the color-line” phrase but his other diagnostic phrasal coinage, “double ...