W.E.B. Du Bois warned decades ago that American democracy was trapped inside one political system wearing two party names.

Historically, Black political power has not come easily in the United States. The institution of slavery and systems of racial inequality – from Black Codes to Jim Crow – restricted the civil and ...

Something consequential is unfolding in American politics, one that public officials across the country should not ignore. In a growing number of jurisdictions, highly qualified Black candidates are ...