The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot machine guns at sleeping women and children

How a racist hate-monger masterminded America’s War on Drugs

Harry Anslinger conflated drug use, race…

This woman was held hostage and drugged because she knew too much about Watergate

Nixon’s goons made…

The radical history of the headwrap

Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is…

These horrifying ‘human zoos’ delighted American audiences at the turn of the 20th century

A white mob wiped this all-black Florida town off the map. 60 years later their story was finally told

When a loudmouthed DJ tried to kill disco, the homophobic and racist implications were impossible to ignore

She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93

Elizabeth Cotten was never…

Photos: Less than a century ago, 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to see a white woman hang a black man

Photos: L.A.’s mid-century smog was so bad, people thought it was a gas attack

Pollution earned the…