An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans. (Library of ...

Arthur H. Robinson, a cartographer and geographer known for marrying art and science in his remarkable 1963 map of what has been called “the world as it really is,” has died. He was 89. Robinson died ...

Of late I’ve been reading a lot about Matteo Ricci, the 16th-century Jesuit missionary to China. Ricci, born in Italy in 1552, was known for his brilliance in mathematics and astronomy, but he was ...

How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography ...