Charles V. Hamilton

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

The machine breaks down: A brief history of Tammany Hall.

A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision.

Late 1960s conflicts within the armed forces produced efforts to educate service members on racism.

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.