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Authors Jelani Cobb, Marlon Jones, Maaza Mengiste, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad talked about how their books speak to the experiences of Black people. The National Black Writers Conference spo…

Authors Annette Gordon-Reed, Elizabeth Hinton, and Jelani Cobb offered their thoughts on racial injustice in America. This virtual program was hosted by Liveright Publishing in New York City…

The House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress held a hearing on how technology can improve engagement with constituents. Witnesses included Congressional Management Foundation …

2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the forced migration of Africans to the Virginia Colony in 1619. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History hosted their 93rd annu…

Stacey Abrams, the minority leader in Georgia’s House of Representatives and her state’s 2016 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke about minority voting rights, voter suppression, and p…

Yale philosophy Professor Jason Stanley discussed how democracies can become vulnerable to fascism. He was joined in conversation by author Timothy Snyder and Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker.

The Ford Foundation hosted a conference at the Charles Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit on the state of race relations and the media, with a focus on the 1968 Kerner Comm…

Panelists talked about the effects of race, ethnicity, and religion on policies such as affirmative action and immigration. This forum was part of a series of discussions on the state of…