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'For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being--a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be 'kept [...]

For a baker's dozen of years beginning in the late 1990s, I was the editor of a monthly reference journal called Current Biography. Our articles on accomplished living people relied [...]

Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street The first thing you see when you enter the exhibit Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through [...]

The article recounts the life and works of African American revolutionary artist Elizabeth Catlett. It highlights Catlett's feminism and concern for Black women workers that informed some of her work such as "The Negro Woman" "I Have Always Worked hard in America," as well as her use of the vertical and horizontal and of augmented body parts in like the terracotta "Young Girl," the sculpture "Tired" and the paintings "Sharecropper" and "WorkingWoman."

The word 'mourning' makes one think of a funeral. That is often followed by a repast, where people brought together in sadness share memories and experiences, find solace in company, [...]

Soul music. The blues. Gospel. Jazz. All can be traced back to the same source, which is the experience of Black people in America, the oppression and triumph, the joy [...]

Those who seek to identify common ground among Americans--seekers who, in this era of extreme polarization, may qualify as an endangered species--tend to focus on the values that the vast [...]

While the North 'won the Civil War, the white South... won the subsequent peace,' Donald Yacovone notes in Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National [...]

America is a strange place these days. It is difficult to recall another time when two diametrically opposed groups, the progressive and the reactionary, were both ascendant at once--when one [...]

GENERATIONS A Memoir LUCILLE CLIFTON NYRB Classics $14.95 | 89 pp. A passage in Walt Whitman's seminal 1855 work, Leaves of Grass, reads, 'And do not call the tortoise unworthy [...]