As the U.S. turns 250, this historian has blunt advice: ‘America has to grow up’As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he’s feeling rageful. He opens his new book, ‘America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries,’ bluntly,...READ MORE
New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on U.S. erasureAt the recently opened Montgomery Square in Alabama, bronze hands rise from the pavement, holding a placard against the sky. It reads 7053, the booking number displayed in Rosa Parks’s 1956 mugshot after she and...READ MORE
Obama Center opens in Chicago with a call to defend democracy and a celebrity crowdFormer President Barack Obama formally opened his presidential center in Chicago on June 19, 2026, with a call to defend democracy as three former presidents joined him on stage in an extraordinary event featuring politicians,...READ MORE
Win the EraFounded by Pete Buttigieg. During his presidential campaign, Pete put forth a vision for 2054 and beyond that catapulted him onto the national stage and an historic win in the 2020 Iowa Caucuses. His campaign...READ MORE
Hunter BidenArtist. Author. Recovery Advocate. He is the second son of former president Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. Hunter released Beautiful Things, a memoir of the trauma of the accident that claimed...READ MORE
June 14: Barack Obama Appreciation DayPresident Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama received the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s Nobel...READ MORE
This Black History Month, the leaders of the past can teach real resistanceNearly 60 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr posed a question that still haunts us. In his final book, published just a year before his death, ‘Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?’,...READ MORE
The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stopsClaudette Colvin, who died in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On March 2,...READ MORE
The U.S. left Vietnam 50 years ago today; the media hasn’t learned its lessonThe last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about U.S. media coverage of the war...READ MORE
The Barack Obama Presidential LibraryUnlike other Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Obama Presidential Library is the first fully digital Presidential library. An estimated 95 percent of the Presidential records of the Obama...READ MORE
