Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

“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.