Martin Luther King Jr.

By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.

The huge, declassified document includes death threats, red scare performances, and extensive investigation into her Yahoo! Groups fan site.

We will never truly achieve racial justice until we, collectively, learn how to treat and heal the wound of white supremacy.

Three veterans of the civil rights movement fought segregation in St. Augustine, Fla., enduring violence and racism in America’s oldest city.

It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration. In fact, it was the culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.

The beginning of the fight for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

Seating was segregated, and the ceremony's only Black speaker was forced to drastically revise his speech to avoid spreading "propaganda."

A new book examines how the US government funded the growth of — and delegated governance to — the nonprofit sector.

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

Nearing an antiabortion victory five decades in the making.

The struggle for progress is always two steps forward and at least one step back.

But it remains unfinished.

Before Colin Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’

While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America.

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene.

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

How American racism, capitalism, and imperialism led the U.S. to sabotage African democracies.