John Lewis

Politics have diluted King's dream.

In The Loud Minority, Daniel Gillion examines the relationship between electoral politics and protest movements.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.

Dick Gregory was an activist, comedian, and trendsetter for Black vegans.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.

Biden needs to stare down White supremacy, which requires strenuous enforcement of the laws.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

When I spoke with my boyhood hero 25 years after his famous home run, I learned why he’d kept going through the death threats and the hate.

In ACT UP, belonging was not conferred by blood. Care was offered when you joined others on the street with the intent to bring the AIDS crisis to an end.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

Every statue defends an idea about history, but what if those ideas are wrong?

How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.

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

Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and the man who delivered them.

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.