by October Gallery
In the first cartoon Elizabeth Montague published in the New Yorker, two black women stand on a rooftop that overlooks a darkened cityscape. Above them, a Batman-inspired spotlight beams a…
On April 13, 1896, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging racial segregation laws in Louisiana. Homer Plessy, a black man who had been arrested for…
On April 11, 1913, recently inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson received Postmaster General Albert Burleson’s plan to segregate the Railway Mail Service. Burleson reported that he found it “intolerable” that white…
Recent reports have shown that coronavirus is infecting and killing black people at a disproportionately high rate. In St. Louis, city officials announced Wednesday that all of their COVID-19-related deaths…
The rising death toll, disproportionately among black residents, has led Michigan to create a racial disparities task force. An aunt, an uncle, and a cousin have tested positive for coronavirus,…
Nancy Redd, author of Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers, dedicated herself to boosting the self-esteem of much younger girls in her latest book, Bedtime Bonnet.…
Pamela Newkirk, a professor of journalism at New York University, is the author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga and, most recently, of Diversity Inc: The Failed Promise…
This country’s institutions treat Blackness like the most toxic comorbidity of all. I have asthma.” Growing up in my beloved St. Louis, I thought this might be the most common…
If you loved the hit show Reading Rainbow, you’ll be happy to know that LeVar Burton will be livestreaming his podcast, “LeVar Burton Reads” on Twitter. NBCBLK recently reported that…
The head of the World Health Organization, Ethiopian microbiologist Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he has received death threats and racist insults while running the global efforts to fight the coronavirus…