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"We've got unfunded obligations in the hundreds of millions. What can we leverage?"

Beverly Tatum, the outgoing president of Spelman College, explains how schools created for African Americans in the 1800s can help desegregate the rest of the country.

Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.

Voters from both parties in North Carolina, a newly minted swing state, are grappling with the weaknesses of the presumptive Republican nominee.

The election of Donald Trump to the presidency reveals the true character of America.

When a would-be reformer meets one of the most corrupt institutions in a country infamous for graft

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.

The president used a narrow condemnation of neo-Nazis to mount a defense of the politics of white resentment.

"It’s unfortunate that the strategy review has taken so long and now has become involved in a political debate over what America’s role in the world should be."