Topic: black people

Participants ride a parade float during the 2026 Juneteenth Parade in Houston, June 13, 2026. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

What do we celebrate on Juneteenth?

Jerel Ezell
Rev. David Black receives medical attention after being pepper sprayed by ICE officers during a protest in Broadview, Illinois, Sept. 19, 2025. (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

Faith on the front lines against ICE

Chauncey DeVega
Muhammad Ali speaking with reporters after his 1967 federal indictment for refusing to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

What became of Black celebrity activism?

Jerel Ezell
Thomas Jefferson (Photo illustration by Salon/VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images/HappyFoto)

How Black liberals fought a "dark age"

Paul Rosenberg
The Harriott II, a riverboat, remains docked on August 8, 2023, on the Alabama riverfront in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. Three people have now been charged in the large fight on floating dock Saturday that was captured on video by numerous spectators. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

Damn right, I come from Alabama

Randall Horton
A small vigil set up across the street from a Tops grocery store on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, where a heavily armed 18-year-old White man entered the store in a predominantly Black neighborhood and shot 13 people, killing ten, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hope and loss on Memorial Day

Chauncey DeVega
A photo of Tyre Nichols next to a candle display during a vigil at Regency Skatepark on January 30, 2023 in Sacramento, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Tyre Nichols and Black masculinity

Robyn Autry
Civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr., former UN Ambassador Ralph Bunche, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (l-r) wear leis during the start of a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The leis were given to the marchers from a group from Hawaii. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Black-Jewish relations: Past and future

Terrence L. Johnson, Jacques Berlinerblau
Poll worker looks on as a female voter is signing in during the state's presidential primary in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Are Black people real "Americans"?

Chauncey DeVega
Candace Owens, Maj Toure and Brandon Tatum (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Black right-wingers at war

Zachary Petrizzo
Philip Roth in Aix en Provence with his companion. (Pascal Parrot/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

Philip Roth's troubling racial odyssey

Jacques Berlinerblau
Coronavirus vaccine vials in hospital (Getty Images)

Black people are vaccinated at low rates

Hannah Recht, Lauren Weber - KFF Health News
Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

For MLK, no healing without justice

Chauncey DeVega
Democratic candidates for Senate Jon Ossoff (L) and Raphael Warnock (R) bump elbows on stage during a rally with US President-elect Joe Biden outside Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 4, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Warnock and Ossoff: A new era?

Terrence L. Johnson, Jacques Berlinerblau
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Uncle Joe: Please tone it down a notch

Chauncey DeVega
Painting of the Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks, one of the leaders of the demonstration and one of the five men killed by the gun fire of the British troops, as he is shot. The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 and was a preliminary riot in the War of Independence from the British. (Getty Images)

We need monuments to Black resistance

Jeff Biggers
President Donald J. Trump bows his head during a prayer at a meeting with inner city pastors in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, Aug 01, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Donald Trump)

Top State Department official resigns

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Biden on black people: He's right

Chauncey DeVega
Former United States Vice President and Democratic nomination hopeful Joe Biden greets his supporters after speaking at Wofford College and campaigning on the eve of the 2020 South Carolina Primary in Spartanburg. (Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Why black voters broke for Biden

Chauncey DeVega
Money in an envelope (Getty Images/Kritchanut)

Trump allies giving black voters cash

Igor Derysh
Marcus Samuelsson (AP/Mark Von Holden)

Marcus Samuelsson gives thanks

Chauncey DeVega
Cornel West and Donald Trump (Chauncey DeVega/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

Cornel West on hope, struggle and Trump

Chauncey DeVega
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (American University/Oneworld Publications)

Ibram X. Kendi on racism and capitalism

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Donald Trump's fascist song of love

Chauncey DeVega
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