Founded as the monthly magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1910, the Crisis has played an important role in the formation and development of African-American public opinion since its inception. As the official...

The original title of the journal was The Crisis: A Record Of The Darker Races. From 1997 to 2003, it appeared as The New Crisis: The Magazine of Opportunities and Ideas, but the title has since reverted to The Crisis. The title derives from the poem...

'Crisis' is an abused and overused word. Its indiscriminate application has reached the field of communication, as evidenced by the popularity of the terms 'crisis management' and 'crisis communication.' Communicators, however, should pay closer attention to 'management' and 'communication' rather than to the 'crisis'...

After a decade of tumultuous upheavals in the 1990s, the currency markets in the 21st century have been remarkably calm. They might not stay that way for long. If there is a single decade when currencies and foreign exchange were consistently at the...

It's a country that plays a central role in fighting the war on terror even as the world's most feared terrorism network calls it home. A place that's embroiled in internal conflict over notions of democracy, modernity and the role of Islam in society.The Pakistan...

Pity upper-middle-class Manhattanites. The average sales price of apartments here has spiked so extremely—tripling in the last decade to a record $1,295,445, according to a recent Prudential Douglas Elliman report—that only the most excessively well-heeled can become local owners. Dottie Herman is the president and...

In the following essay, Muraskin asserts that the short stories published in The Crisis from 1910-1950 reflected the concerns of the black middle class in America during those years.