Amid the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew directly and self-consciously on the declaration. In his 1963 “ I Have a Dream” speech, King defined an ...

The subject of memory also energizes most of the books we chose this year. Several works look back vividly and honestly on ...

Everyone has seen the classic horror film where the token Black person—specifically the Black guy—dies first. But Black ...