Little Rock Nine

65 years ago this week, Edwin Walker helped enforce Little Rock integration. Then he devoted himself to segregation.

Schools have long been ideological and physical battlegrounds — especially when it comes to citizenship and civil rights.

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

Three US presidents from the South’s borders—Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson—worked against Southern politicians to support civil and voting rights.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

Decades after the segregation battles of his youth, Jerry Jones has modernized the NFL’s revenue model but hasn’t hired a Black head coach.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.

Blaming “bad dudes”—ignores the role of women in the white nationalist movement.

For a century, school showers have anticipated the current debate about bathrooms.