Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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.