Today's capital punishment and racial injustice are 'direct descendants of lynching.'

As the world reacts to ISIS brutality, Bill Moyers reminds us of homegrown barbarism in our not-so-distant past.

Continuing to punish people after they have served time, as some states do, can be counterproductive to building safe and healthy communities.

Fed up with essentially begging for access to quality food, residents of this predominantly African-American neighborhood decided to open their own grocery store.

Legal expert Robert A. Williams Jr. talks to Bill about why the Supreme Court justices do not "want Indian cases," Hollywood's use of "savage" imagery and the Redskins.

See a roundup of Bill's top 10 discussions this year on BillMoyers.com.

The essays in Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident remind us that Zinn was not just a historian: he was also deeply involved in the major 20th century struggles for social justice in the United States.

The celebrated Nigerian author says that when she moved to the US, she initially pushed back on identifying as black. She explains why.

From 2010 to 2013, the median wealth of white households increased to $141,900. Meanwhile, the median wealth of black households fell to $11,000 in 2013.

In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy.