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America is experiencing two disturbing simultaneous trends: the rise of mob censorship to shut down speaking events on college campuses, and an attempt to justify it as merely the exercise of “more speech.”

It was 2004 when the Los Angeles Times disclosed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted expensive gifts and private plane trips paid for by Harlan Crow, a wealthy Texas real estate investor and a prominent Republican donor.

Artists and writers pay tribute to figures who resisted slavery and racism, as part of Guardian project exploring the paper’s links to enslavement

The paper supported abolition – but backed payment for enslavers, and criticised more radical campaigners. In the US civil war, the editors refused to support the north

The Guardian is facing up to, and apologising for, the fact that its first editor drew his wealth from a practice that was a crime against humanity

Conflict between Irish-Americans and WASPs was once a major feature of American politics. Its near-total disappearance is a hopeful development that we can learn from.

It should also be noted that making a show of presidential ambition early but then backing off has been an excellent way to get on the national ticket, albeit in the role of running mate.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906.

LOS ANGELES — Sitting in a booth at a Hollywood coffee shop across from LeVar Burton, there's no denying the passion in his eyes when he talks about literacy and how reading is not only a tool that unlocks doors to success but also a civil right.

Shortly after 9/11, a group of Palestinian students had some questions for an American reporter about the lives and history of Muslims in America that sent him on a decadeslong journey, researching and writing about Muslims who had been in the United States since a few years after the Mayflower…

Judge Matey's concurrence sketches out the original meaning of "involuntary servitude."