Jeanne Theoharis

On the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

He was the president of the United States.

A new documentary explores the origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — with lessons on how we see movements.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.

King understood the perils of submerged racism.

The way we talk about her covers up uncomfortable truths about American racism.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.