HERITAGE

For those of us who are now in our early 50s — Black men who came of age in America’s inner cities during the 1980s and early 1990s — the Civil Rights Movement was both history and inheritance. We were too young to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Too young to remember segregated lunch counters. But we were not so far removed that the movement felt distant. The victories of the 1960s had opened doors. Yet the neighborhoods we grew up in were still marked by underfunded

Havana, Cuba — Assata Olugbala Shakur, known to many as one of the most polarizing and enduring figures of the Black liberation movement,...

Eric Monte—born Kenneth Williams on December 25, 1943, in Chicago—was a visionary writer who shaped the portrayal of African‑American...