Seeking a broader American understanding. The evolution of our national identity has always been a multicultural journey, and never more has the integral role of Black Americans been so critical to its understanding. From our acclaimed Black Community Studies series to recent reaccountings of the history of lynching in the South, from civil rights icon Daisy Bates’s memoir to the definitive biography of social justice martyr Medgar Evers, our coverage of African American studies transcends genre and discipline to bring new focus on the true foundations and troubling failures of our ongoing national experiment.