Martin Luther King 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.

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.

The soul singer was an architect of the civil-rights movement as much as a witness to it.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

For many American liberals, RFK became a symbol of not just a better past, but also a better future that might have been.

Until his last breath, RFK insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.

Rather than seeking a national solution, activists are taking to states across America to combat the deep roots of poverty.

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.

History is coming to life, and scholars are debating the merits of this wave of re-creation and manipulation.

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.

Racial justice energized the party in the past. It can today too.

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era that is often contrasted with his legacy.