A century of liberal proposals have failed to curb racialized poverty, because they've been focused on the wrong thing.

69 Criminal disenfranchisement laws may also be ... of blacks at a time when an explicit grant of suffrage to African Americans was not politically possible. Section 2 “put southern States ...

The texts inform recipients that they have ‘been selected to pick cotton’ and sparks concern of a potential surge in hate ...

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

Given the major impact of felony disenfranchisement laws on the voting population, and in particular their strikingly disproportionate impact on African Americans, policymakers should consider ...

As is entrepreneurship: African Americans are not looking for government handouts, nor are many demanding wealth redistribution as a corrective for historical disenfranchisement (despite Ta-Nehisi ...

The Fourteenth Amendment allowed states to disenfranchise those convicted ... resulted in the vote being denied to thousands of African Americans who, as a group, have been disproportionately ...

Oscar De Priest was the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century, as well as the first elected outside ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, with the abolition of slavery formalised by the 13th Amendment in 1865, approximately 4 ...

Native Americans encountered several challenges, much like African Americans and other marginalised groups who struggled for ...

Written in 1949, at a time when African Americans continued to face intense racism, disenfranchisement, and segregation, “Freedom” is unwavering in its call for freedom for African Americans.