Henry Louis Gates

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look…

It’s important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when…

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was…

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify…

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of…

The African American’s relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early…

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you’re willing to stand up within the…

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice…

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that…

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We…

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions…

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than…

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than…

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes…

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped…