Nation Topics - Negro | The Nation

More than a quarter of African-Americans live in poverty. During Black History Month, we should speak truthfully about the economic legacy that drives this inequality.

Athletes need to realize that they can shape their own image much more successfully than athletes of previous generations.

A mass strategy to recruit the poor onto welfare rolls would create a political crisis that could result in legislation that brings an end to poverty.

The good ladies of Spelman set aside decades of gentility and moderation to wade into the civil rights battle.

The head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters takes on FDR.

In 1909, when the founders of the NAACP needed help organizing their new civil rights group, they reached out to Oswald Garrison Villard, The Nation's future editor and owner.

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

A report from the front lines of the civil rights battle in Greenwood, Mississippi--a very dangerous place to be.

With SNCC's new chairman Stokely Carmichael and his chant for "black power" the civil rights movement takes on a different tone.

A Jewish man in Georgia is jailed and lynched for a crime everyone knows he didn't commit.