Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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

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

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

The Vaudeville star was at the height of her fame in Europe when WWII struck, and used her status for the allies.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.

"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.