“Glory” is set for nationwide screenings marking its 30th anniversary. Star Andre Braugher tells Truthdig what he learned from his role.

The author examines 'Sundown towns'—all-white communities that kept out minorities with laws, threats and violence—in the context of Trump era racism and #BlackLivesMatter.

Even though the 2018 elections had the highest midterm voter turnout in half a century, fewer than half of eligible voters cast their ballots.

The California city’s wunderkind mayor has big plans—including a basic income plan—to make good on his buzzed-about potential.

Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King.

Media are all atwitter over the prince's engagement to the mixed-race American actress—interesting, since genealogists claim he is descended from Muhammad.

Better late than never for the “white left” to begin understanding the importance of racial justice.

The U.S. military burns millions of pounds of munitions in a tiny, African-American corner of Louisiana. The town’s residents, including Frankie McCray (pictured), say they’re forgotten in the toxic plume.