Jesse Jackson Sr.

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition.

Winning the South Carolina primary requires exciting a crucial constituency.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

As seemingly all of the American food media tripped over itself to create listicles around National Taco Day, I shook my head in disgust.

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.

More than anything else, the Watsonville Canning strike was a fight against national oppression.

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.

To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.

Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, constantly defied those who tried to constrain her due to race and gender.

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

White supremacy and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.