Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Claudette Colvin is a Civil Rights hero you've probably never heard of. In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, months before Rosa Parks.

As Presidents' Day approaches, historians look back at the most notable recent uses and misuses of "the Great Emancipator's" words.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

His blazing rendition at Woodstock still echoes throughout the years, reminding us of what is worth fighting for in the American experiment.

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.

A new proposal for reparations for slavery raises three critical questions: How much does America owe? Where will the money come from? And who gets paid?

In 1964, the John Birch Society was the most active far-right group in the United States—unless you count the Republican Party.

This op-ed celebrates the life and legacy of economist, attorney, and civil rights advocate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.