In 1970, 23 Native activists scaled the presidential monument and renamed it "Crazy Horse Mountain" in protest of the U.S. government's control of land it previously granted to the Sioux. Share ...

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James's personal and artistic journey has a lot to teach us about the shifting politics of race, class and feminist politics over the course of the last half century. Kenyon Farrow explores the late ...

A growing number of Native designers are using the power of the Internet to distribute their work themselves. They're displaying their creations on platforms like Instagram, expanding their audiences ...

Rev. Eboni Marshall Turman is an assistant professor of theology and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School. She served as assistant minister of the historic Abyssinian Baptist ...

Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on race, power and democracy. We offer analysis, collective meaning-making, and opportunities to engage in power-building moments and movements.

There have been many opportunities to put into practice the messages, drawn from the natural world, of brown's latest book. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on race, power and ...

Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on race, power and democracy. We offer analysis, collective meaning-making, and opportunities to engage in power-building moments and movements.

Organizers from Idle No More held a flash mob round dance early Saturday evening at the Mall of America to raise awareness of their movement that calls on all people "to join in a revolution which ...

Mollena Williams is gregarious, the kind of woman who makes a point of saying, “How are you today?” to the Walgreens cashier. She has a short afro and laughs easily. She works as an administrative ...

As you know, the video for Beyoncé Knowles' "Formation" does the most, from invoking police violence, to flashing back to Hurricane Katrina, to celebrating Blue Ivy's adorable afro. Here, Yaba Blay, a ...

Just shy of 60 years old, the Fair Housing Act protects against discrimination in how people sell, buy, or finance their homes. Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson under the Civil Rights Act of 1968 ...