Nikole Hannah-Jones

Court-ordered desegregation worked. But white racism made it hard to accept.

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

The Sydnor-Joneses had finally moved into an actual home by scrimping and saving. But the pandemic has stymied their resourcefulness.

Nikole Hannah-Jones explains the history of economic injustice and argues that if black lives are to truly matter in America, the nation must finally pay its debts.

In separate works, Tami Charles and Kwame Alexander tell a story not of Black America but of America, of a history we all must own.

The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.

In a new essay, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that the fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.

How a 50-year campaign has undermined the progress of the civil rights movement.

Suggesting that there is something contrived about a mixed-race person identifying as Black assumes that the choice wasn’t already made for her.

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance.