A Quiet Architect of GPS
Gladys West’s work was not celebrity science. It was infrastructure: algorithms, models, and error budgets that made the planet computable.
Sweets, Spices, and the Price of Being Free
The county’s earliest recorded Black commercial enterprise shows how everyday commerce became a form of civil rights long before the phrase existed.
The Woman Closest to the Pain
Ayanna Pressley’s political story—shaped by survival, city hall fights, and a refusal to accept “incremental” relief—has become a sustained campaign to make the American
In the Wake
Myrlie Evers-Williams, Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King navigated the years after assassination by building organizations, guarding narratives, and making sure their children w
The Parks We Built When We Weren’t Welcome
In 1920s Chicago and Washington, Black entrepreneurs and neighbors turned exclusion into infrastructure—Joyland Park and Suburban Gardens were not mere amusements, but civic decl
Ilhan Omar: The Politics of “I Was Told.”
When hearsay, not documentation, becomes the foundation of false accusations—inside the latest campaign against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Joe Clark: Lean on Him
Before Hollywood made him a myth, Joe Clark was a working principal in Paterson, trying to impose order on a school—and a country—buckling under drugs, austerity, and the polit
Half Past Midnight in Jackson: The Medgar Evers Assassination
The night Medgar Evers was killed, America was already watching the South. Mississippi answered with a rifle shot—and the movement answered back.
The Woman Who Built the Runway
Willa Brown didn’t just learn to fly. She engineered a pipeline—training Black pilots, pressuring Washington, and forcing open a military sky that kept insisting it was closed.
The Bombs Before the Riot
Between 1917 and 1919, Black Chicagoans learned that the city’s housing boundaries were not only enforced by deeds and banks, but also by bombs—and by a police apparatus that r