Martin Luther King Jr.

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

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

Banning such teaching isn’t colorblind; it would erase Black people from history and maintain White cultural dominance.

Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion.

In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.

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

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.

“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother… for big powerful America.”

Activists on the campaign were dedicated, but the city of Chicago and the FBI had conspired to murder the city’s best organizer that night in December 1969.

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan grappled with the contradictions of a role that is at once public and private, superficial and serious.

The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.