In 2019, 400 years after the first slave ship arrived in the English colony of Virginia, the New York Times featured a series of articles on the ways in which the legacy of slavery has shaped American ...

The 1619 Project was an explosive media project that explored the ways the legacy of slavery still shapes American society. Its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, shares what it was like to be in the ...

In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from ...

From the clashes over Epstein at AmericaFest to QAnon and the "Big Lie," conspiracy theories are a constant in American ...

Seeking to position himself as Trump’s political heir and unite reactionaries of all stripes behind his campaign, Vice ...

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great ...

The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a St. Louis slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a ...

As Donald Trump heads into 2026, the White House is framing the year as a decisive turning point of his second term. From a ...

Columnist Ken Buck writes, "For a nation founded on principles of limited government, personal liberty and free-market competition, the United States ...

Despite the extensive figures that Savage cites, prominent voices on the left found ways to reject or decry his argument. Nikole Hannah-Jones, a MacArthur fellow and the reporter behind The New York ...