May 10, 2019

In 2017, a 24-year-old Black mother of three found herself locked in a county jail. She was four months pregnant. Two months passed without word about when she’d be getting out, triggering a manic epi...

May 10, 2019

Oct. 17, 2018, began like any other pre-dawn Thursday morning, except that the light in Danye Jones’ basement bedroom was still on when his stepfather, Derek Chatman, entered the North St. Louis Count...

May 10, 2019

Roadside assistance. That’s all Corey Jones wanted in the early hours of Oct. 18, 2015. Instead, Nouman Raja — a Florida police officer in plain clothes and an unmarked vehicle — shot him to death. On...

The real Oscar Grant was a young man who loved God, who treasured his family and who wanted to make a difference in the community and in his family's life.

As a kid, Oscar loved the spotlight. When we...

2nd Lt. Richard Collins III wanted to be the next Colin Powell.

“He thought that there was no limit to what he could do. We had conversations and he said, ‘Mom, the world is going to know my name,’” re...

Voters purged off rolls.

Bad information about voter identification requirements.

Unnecessary requests to justify an address.

These narratives are coming from places as varied as North Dakota’s Native Am...

April 30, 2019

This week, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Andrew Brasher to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Brasher currently serves as Alabama’s solicitor general. Civil rights...

April 30, 2019

NAACP Historic Jamestown to Jamestown Trip will mark 400 years of Africans in America

2019 marks the 400th year enslaved Africans first touched the shores of what would become America.  In a historic t...

April 23, 2019

Pictured: Stanley Nelson at the NMAAHC’s Oprah Winfrey Theater

From the days of slavery, African Americans have used their creativity and ingenuity to create financial freedom and economic empowerment...

April 22, 2019

Two years after Donald Trump shocked the political world to defeat Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States, a specially appointed federal prosecutor released a 448-page repor...

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The Crisis magazine is a quarterly journal of politics, culture, civil rights and history that seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues facing African-Americans and other communities of color.

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