Painting a new pantheon: portrait series honours Black radicals
Artists and writers pay tribute to figures who resisted slavery and racism, as part of Guardian project exploring the paper’s links to enslavement
February 2022
‘Listen to what he said’: remembering and honoring the speeches of Frederick Douglass
In new HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, actors read some of the orator and abolitionist’s most powerful words
January 2022
Republican school bill mocked for claim Frederick Douglass debated Lincoln
A Virginia bill banning the teaching of ‘divisive concepts’ confused the civil rights campaigner with the senator Stephen Douglas
July 2020
Frederick Douglass statue torn down on anniversary of great speech
Discovery of Frederick Douglass letter sheds light on contested Lincoln statue
November 2019
Eminent Victorians: 19th-century celebrity portraits – in pictures
As a new picture of Billy the Kid goes on sale for $1m, these photographs showcase some of the most significant people of the 19th century to be captured on camera
July 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 books about Baltimore
'There aren't many fairytale endings': behind the bleak immigration exhibition
May 2019
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe extract – ‘it really was another world’
In his new book, Sheffield-born writer Johny Pitts shows a side of Europe and its people that often goes unseen
April 2019
Barack and Michelle Obama announce first slate of Netflix projects
Trump investigations and gun coverage shine in 2019 Pulitzer prizes
March 2019
To fight racism, we need to think beyond reparations
Bhaskar Sunkara
We need a political revolution to truly bring democracy and equality to the United States – reparations won’t cut it
Colin Grant: ‘We’re still living with slavery’
From prize-winners Esi Edugyan and Marlon James to debut novelists such as Sara Collins, a new generation of novelists is exploring a painful past
Isaac Julien on Frederick Douglass: 'It's an extraordinary story'
Slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime
'The world looked different to him': Charles White's black America
January 2019
Charles Koch quotes Frederick Douglass: he will 'unite with anybody to do right'
Conservative billionaires who fell out with Trump before 2016 election tell supporters they will work with Democrats
These Truths review: Jill Lepore's Lincolnian American history
The Harvard professor is inclusive and fair, well-placed to tell the story of the United States to 21st-century readers
'An extraordinary American story' – behind an eye-opening James Baldwin exhibition
The life of the famed author is celebrated in a new exhibition curated by writer and theatre critic Hilton Als, who speaks about Baldwin’s significance today
November 2018
From dolls to magazine covers: how early black designers made their mark
In a new exhibition, the work of African American designers in Chicago is celebrated from editorial and product design to the first black-founded ad agency
