Vann R. Newkirk II
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Diana Ejaita for The Atlantic The Black-History Books Teachers Hope Won’t Be Banned
When the tools for educating young people are restricted
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Associated Press. The Legacy of Charles V. Hamilton and Black Power
A tribute to a true theorist of democracy
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Revisiting America’s Most Radical Experiment
The Reconstruction era is not just a distant, bygone time. It’s also a living history.
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Ernest Cole, Untitled, 1967–72, from "Ernest Cole: The … Lost Photographs of Black America
A trove of images from the 1960s and ’70s, discovered in a Swedish bank vault, offers new perspectives on the past—and the present.
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Santi Visalli / Getty What to Read, Watch, and Listen to Today
Suggestions for your downtime this Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Cheriss May / NurPhoto / Getty Civil Rights Undone
How Trump could unwind generations of progress
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Photo-illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Bettmann / Getty. How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music—And America Itself
In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.
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Holy Week: Overcome
Part 4: In Memphis, the movement faces a reckoning.
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Holy Week: Resurrection
Part 8: Whoever believes in him shall not perish
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Holy Week: Black Messiah
Part 3: Who will rise next?
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Holy Week: Rupture
Part 1: A day at the crossroads of chance and destiny
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Holy Week: Inferno
Part 2: The Black capital of the world catches fire
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Holy Week: Covenant
Part 7: A settlement in ashes
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Holy Week: Kingdom
Part 6: On Palm Sunday, Black D.C. wakes up to a broken dream.
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Holy Week: Prophecy
Part 5: Leaders hope to stop that which had been foretold
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Paul Spella Introducing: Holy Week
The story of a revolution undone
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Warrick Page / HBO / Charlie Le Maignan … The Frenetic Basketball Nostalgia of Winning Time
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
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Photograph by Yael Malka for The Atlantic When the Myth of Voter Fraud Comes for You
To support the Republican narrative that our elections are rife with misconduct, someone needs to take the fall.
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Dan Budnik / Contact Press Images; Flip Schulke … American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
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Earth’s New Gilded Era
The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger.
