Martin Luther King Jr.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

Nelson “Little D” Ross talks soul and significance with music historian Robert Gordon.

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.

Is there still a civil rights movement?

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.