History

Follow the controversial rise to victory of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro.

In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans to Illinois, leaving a million people homeless and leading to a major black migration to the North.

In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement.

How will the new leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party Nelson Chamisa challenges the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in the 2018 general election?

A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv.

This film tells the little-known story of a Black settlement, established in the wilds of upstate New York.

Singer Ruston Kelly meets Melissa Smith, who runs a performing arts program supporting intellectually disabled adults.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus.