“I didn’t want it to be slavery porn. There’s no need for that.”

A new online “Reparations Toolkit” gives a detailed breakdown of why Black people deserve this financial payback.

The school voted unanimously to erect a statue in honor of Joseph Vaughn and review its mission and vision with an eye toward inclusivity.

Tamara Lanier seeks compensation for emotional distress and Harvard University’s acknowledgement that it was “complicit in perpetuating and justifying the institution of slavery.”

No, it was not satire.

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff also said, “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man.”

John Jennings illustrated the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic “Kindred,” which debuts January 10. 

Historian and writer Theodore Hamm gathered some of the abolitionist leader’s seminal speeches and lectures for “Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn,” which debuted yesterday.

Season two of WGN’s antebellum drama about runaway slaves premieres March 8.

Colorlines news editor Kenrya Rankin visited the new Smithsonian museum, which opens today. Here’s what made made her time there terrible—and what made it beautiful.

Check out pics of a Tuskeegee Airmen plane, the P-Funk Mothership and more in this roundup from yesterday’s media day at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

From “they were well-fed” to “they were happy to have jobs,” she breaks down why defending slavery is reprehensible.

Reparations.me’s creator Natasha Marin: “It’s about reparations for things that happened earlier today, for yesterday, for last Thursday.”

Corey Menafee on his decision to break the window: “It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.”

Nate Parker’s directorial debut about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion arrives in theaters on October 7.

The old and new “Kunta Kinte” investigate their ancestry in a new promo for the History Channel’s “Roots” reboot.

“I don’t know if we’re ever going to agree on the usage of that word. I do know that word has a lot of history behind it, and if we ignore it, it feels like we’re ignoring the history. And I don’t like to ignore history.”

The series’ season finale will air on WGN on May 11.

It’s easy to see why Nate Parker’s upcoming film secured the largest distribution deal in the Sundance Film Festival’s history.