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...

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...

A state agency released a blistering report Wednesday on last summer's blackouts, charging that the local utility's performance was "unacceptable and a gross disservice to its customers," tens of thousands of whom lost power for several days.The Public Service Commission report details a litany of...

Ties between Muslim nations and the West suffered no long-term damage from the international uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in European countries last year, Denmark's foreign minister said Thursday.The 12 drawings were first published in September 2005 in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten...

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.