John Lewis

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

Its meaning can change over time, and over the course of a life.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, talk about “the environment” had little of its later coherence or political meaning.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

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

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.

The president’s decision to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson has sparked protests.

Two writers — one black, one white — journey to Selma, Alabama, in search of "Southern heritage." This is their dialogue. 

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

The right to vote is under the greatest threat since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

On the trail to Montgomery.