Race

What Black Americans Say Is Needed To Overcome Racial Inequality

Jens Manuel Krogstad and Kiana Cox / Pew Research Center Feb 1, 2023 Five key findings from a Pew Research Center survey. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

America Can’t Wipe Itself Clean of Blackface

Kevin Cooper / Truthdig Feb 28, 2019 Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam offers a painful reminder that certain white people in this country just don’t get it, and likely never will. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

NBA’s Gregg Popovich: ‘We Live in a Racist Country’

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Feb 14, 2018 The San Antonio Spurs coach, never one to mince words, schools America on Black History Month. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Black History Month From Death Row

Kevin Cooper / Truthdig Jan 31, 2018 The horrible things I suffered in 2004—when California attempted to murder me in its death chamber—should not surprise anyone. Lynchings and executions are a fact of African-American life. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Orange History Week

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Feb 5, 2017 Dig deeper

Frederick Douglass: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Feb 2, 2017 The good news: Donald Trump opened Black History Month by mentioning the renowned abolitionist. The bad news: Trump doesn't seem to realize that Douglass is dead. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

In Search of the Movement

By Elaine Elinson Feb 19, 2016 Honoring Black History Month, Truthdig takes a look at a book that asks: Now that today's public schools are more racially segregated than in the ’60s, now that black men and women are being gunned down by police at alarming rates, and now that black men are six times more likely than white men to be behind bars, "What happened to the civil rights movement?" Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Here’s Why Black History Must Be Remembered All Year Long

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2016 As the rest of the nation celebrates Black History Month, this February I’m taking a graduate-level course I call “Dead White Men.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

We Still Need Black History Month

By Marc Morial / OtherWords Feb 6, 2016 America’s racial disparity won’t disappear if we simply ignore it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rethinking Black History Month

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Mar 1, 2013 The modern civil rights movement occurred long before millions of Americans were born, but many participants and observers are still available to recount their stories. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Thomas Jefferson Against Slavery

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 17, 2013 At the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson regretted much about what the country he helped build had become. Today, midway through Black History Month, we turn an eye to his repudiation of slavery in a passage that failed to make it into the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Santa Clausifying Martin Luther King Jr.

David Sirota / Truthdig Feb 2, 2013 Every year, right around the time between Martin Luther King Day and the beginning of Black History Month, the effort to distort Dr. King's life and legacy seems to intensify Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )