He was headed for the discipline track, Ford-Morthel says, and even as a fourth grader, he would easily have been suspended for his behavior in many other schools. "But we sat with him and we had to ...

Louis Mitch ell expected a lot of change when he began taking injections of hormones eight years ago to transition from a female body to a male one. He anticipated that he’d grow a beard, which he ...

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 ...

The Michigan state prison system has banned Frantz Fanon’s seminal race theory book “Black Skin, White Masks” from its libraries. Here’s how legal experts and his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès, are ...

Crucial health care services, such as sexual and reproductive health care, must remain accessible to all populations, especially in a pandemic. Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on ...

It’s in vogue to call the new movement to end police violence against black civilians leaderless. Historian and veteran activist Barbara Ransby argues that it has many leaders in the Ella Baker ...

When Celeste Ng published the novel, there wasn't a Black Mia. “I didn’t feel like I was the right person to try to bring a Black woman’s experience to the page,” Ng said. Colorlines is the leading ...

When we learned that the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day would be “Choose to Challenge”, we thought of the many women we know—brazen and brave and bold—who choose to challenge the ...

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.

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.

Prince William County’s The Settlement neighborhood, which was built by formerly enslaved people, is struggling over its future, according to a report in The Washington Post. Colorlines is the leading ...

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.