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The sanitising of Martin Luther King’s legacy sustains the racial violence in the United States

At a time when the country feels hopelessly divided, Sacramento's nearly native son Cornel West has a message of love and compassion.

This article is part of the Mercury's 2020 all-digital Queer Week coverage. In Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin writes, “I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that.” These words could be used to describe any LGBTQ+ writer, but perhaps best define queer Black authors living in America. This list below highlights a sampling of essential literature—everything from memoirs to science fiction—from Black...

Anthony explores big sky country as he joins Joe Rogan in a pheasant hunt, visits the Crow reservation and Orphan Boy Mine; one on one talk with the late...

The new US Virgin Islands Caribbean Music Festival is the product of a collaboration between the United Jazz Foundation.

James Baldwin, in full James Arthur Baldwin, (born August 2, 1924, New York, New York—died December 1, 1987, Saint-Paul, France), American essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the United States and, later, through much of western Europe. The eldest of nine children, he grew up in poverty in the Black ghetto of Harlem in New York City. From age 14 to 16 he...

Attacks on Black History and the way it echoes through our present day lives are rampant. We need to fight back!

Decades have passed, but Nichols’ death shows how little has changed.

Imagine a betrayal that can come from all sides, even from people who should be running alongside you.