Martin Luther King Jr.

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.

How more than a century of whitewashed history poisons Alabama today.

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.

The rise of tactical gun culture among civilians reveals a new front in the U.S. battle against nativist authoritarianism.

The beloved musical’s creator struggled to find a place between left and center.

Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash cancelled gigs in Belfast during the violent 1970s, but Pride played on.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.

King recalled: “I liked his voice, though I had no idea he was getting ready to conquer the world.”

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

The inspiration for the 1964 “Extremism in the defense of liberty” speech he wrote for Barry Goldwater.

A new book argues that the real estate industry’s campaign to defend housing segregation still echoes in today’s politics.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

Historians have demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation of the U.S. But many of those same ideas have also been vital to combating white supremacy.

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American prison on the outskirts of Saigon: a prison for American soldiers.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.