In 1968, Black Americans Debated What to Call Themselves
In 1968, as the country wrestled with civil rights, identity, and power, JET magazine asked a deceptively simple question: What...
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The Pruitt Igoe Experiment
During the Cold War, parts of St. Louis became the site of secret U.S. Army testing meant to study how...
Before Social Media, They Had This Raw Debate on Live TV
A nationally televised conversation from 1968, aired on PBS as part of a series created to present Black American life...
Inglewood Daycare Worker Caught on Video Throwing Shoe at 5-year-old Special Needs Child
A mother in Inglewood says she is outraged after surveillance video showed a daycare employee throwing a shoe that struck...
Philip A. Payton Jr. – The Black Real-Estate Strategist Who Helped Flip Harlem’s Color Line
Philip Anthony Payton Jr. (February 27, 1876 – August 29, 1917) was a Black real-estate entrepreneur best known for building...
Violence or Non-Violence
This clip features Russell Meeks speaking during a live public television special broadcast in 1968. These programs were aired without...
‘Sanford and Son’ star Grady Demond Wilson dead at 79
Demond Wilson, the actor best known for portraying Lamont Sanford on the landmark 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son, has died...
The FBI’s Secret War on Black America
COINTELPRO is one of those phrases that floats around American history like a warning label everyone’s seen but few have...
When Muhammad Ali Walked Into Iraq to Free American Hostages
When Muhammad Ali Walked Into Iraq to Free American Hostages In November 1990, as the world braced for war in...
Syracuse Woman Who Lived at Husband’s Grave for Months Finds New Home After Police Intervention
For more than half a year, Rhea Holmes lived in silence among the headstones of Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New...