Martin Luther King Jr.

A lethal incident of police brutality in Miami in 1979 offers just one of countless examples of the reality generations of African Americans have faced.

At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to a device to torment people in custody, racist police brutality runs deep.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next.

She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.

In a sermon two weeks after MLK's funeral, Walker urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.