Martin Luther King Jr.

“Whenever there’s a tragedy in black America, there’s always been an uptick of black history courses."

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Both Southerners. Both all but forgotten. Both, in their own ways, questioned the social constructions of race and white supremacy in their writings.

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, "opportunity areas" -- an idea once politically impossible.

Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

Ninety years ago, young African Americans in the South took up the Lindy Hop. It was an act of resistance and an assertion of freedom.

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

On the origin and growth of the Moral Mondays movement.

What we can learn from him and his legacy.

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting MLK, Jr., intersected at a corner of East Hollywood.

The billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation's priorities.

Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.

How the story itself came out.

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.

Odetta’s artistry was a weapon in the Civil Rights struggle, and was crucial to the era’s politics.

Several 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.