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Updated at 4:41 p.m. ET on November 2, 2025Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights…

Percival Everett showed me the transformative power of literatureLenny HenryActor, writer and comedian and the author, with Marcus Ryder, of The Big Payback: The Case for…

On 26 October, podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather on the steps of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for a teach-in in…

It’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as a…

Democracy flourishes when Black Americans advance. The evidence is clear: birthright citizenship, constitutional due process, anti-discrimination laws from education to housing to employment and equitable small…

Friedrich Engels stands accused of exaggerating, or perhaps taking “creative liberties”, with just how segregated Manchester was in the mid-19th century, a study has found.The great…

Kat Lloyd talks to the students during a presentation inside the Tenement Museum in New York City. Keren Carrion/NPR hide caption toggle caption Keren Carrion/NPR Kat…

High school history teacher Antoine Stroman says he wants his students to ask “the hard questions” — about slavery, Jim Crow, the murder of George Floyd…

We all are witness to the incredibly frenetic race to develop AI tools, which publicly kicked off on Nov. 30, 2022, with the release of ChatGPT by…

The federal government shut down on Wednesday for the first time since December 2018. That shutdown lasted for five weeks, until January 2019. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via…