Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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.