At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

Featuring vivid cultural textiles, eclectic accessories and elaborately constructed hairstyles, artist Thandiwe Muriu’s ...

Midway through Black History Month, it’s worth noting the relative brevity of Black film history—the very first major-studio feature to be directed by an African-American didn’t come along until 1969, ...

As we found when we first looked into the history of the photo in 2021, there was no evidence to support the claim that the ...

Mike White’s first job as a television writer, in the late nineties, was on the teen soap opera “Dawson’s Creek.” It was a ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

As healthcare costs rise and pressure mounts to improve employee health and well-being, consider these criteria for new ...

A picture of a snowman made of the dirtiest snow, a black smile spray ... of color pushes an older white woman in a wheelchair along a snowy trail, calling to mind Sisyphus rolling a rock up ...

First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic ’s Books section: ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Americans are not in the world of Sisyphus or in the world of those who ... Just as despair can feel like stumbling through a pitch-black cave without an idea of where it ends, hopeful pessimism ...