For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.

We’re at a critical moment in our economic recovery.

The Atlantic senior editor talks about black vs. white neighborhoods, the messages we send black kids and the elementary school experience that changed him.

A bill to restore many of the VRA’s key protections remains stalled in Congress. The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is yet to hold a hearing on the measure.

Watch two short docs from The Atlantic about African-Americans who fought back against housing discrimination in Chicago in the 1960s.

Should reparations be considered? If so, what should they be, and if not, what are the alternatives?

Minimum wage campaigns should be the entry point to not only raise the bottom but also to challenge the tricks, skims and scams that concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

The unemployment rate for black college graduates has been higher than for all graduates for decades. A new report says that the gap has widened since 2007.

Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.

Despite the Fair Housing Act, levels of residential segregation have barely budged in many of the large metropolitan areas where most African-Americans live. Here's why.