Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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

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

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

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.”