black history

The new essay collection offers readers “joy and validation.”

Spare us the quotes from civil rights icons. We need action now.

“There’s power in a name.”

So much has happened on this date.

Kerby-Jean Raymond transported audiences into a surrealist world using compelling silhouettes to celebrate Black inventors.

Tony Eldon says his Black history account helped prepare him to get into politics.

“This was not a gain that was granted, it was a gain that was demanded.” 

The term was never meant to be exclusionary.

“I have a binder full of hate mail and death threats.”

“I want to show the world that Black people have always been a part of the fashion ethos." 

“August is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance.”

From Ava DuVernay's "13th" to the Toni Morrison doc "The Pieces I Am."

We’ve seen this pattern from Bloody Sunday to Black Lives Matter.

Channing Godfrey Peoples' film explores an annual pageant and the relationship between a mother and her teen daughter.

The rapper started a hashtag to encourage people to divest from corporations.

“With AR, you can shift narratives in a much quicker way.”

"Hopefully this will be the last marker we have to dedicate for the site.”

“The same violence she fought against took her tragically.”

He was assassinated at age 39.

This Black History Month, as we reflect on the trailblazers who have fought for equality, let's also lift up today's young leaders.