A. Philip Randolph

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

W.E.B. DuBois, 100 years ago.

The hugely influential but largely forgotten labor leader Ben Fletcher couldn’t be more relevant to the most urgent political projects of today.

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.

The making of the black working class.

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Still, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom.

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

A historian looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.

Despite their large role in civil rights activism, black women have frequently been excluded from prominent positions in protests.

What we can learn from liberal anti-communists.

Why the policies of the Federal Reserve were a central focus for the civil rights movement.