Martin Luther King Jr.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.

The rollback of LGBTQ rights echoes a deeply consequential chapter of American history: the Lavender Scare.

Domestic deployments have generally been quite restrained. Can they still be?

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I the Asshole.

He challenged the violence of US power, abroad and at home. His radical internationalism, from Congo to Palestine, speaks to our moment.

She translated Black freedom movements' ideals into forms that children could enjoy and grasp, nurturing their political consciousness through music-making.

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President FDR heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military.

A new book highlights Josephine Baker’s wartime contribution, and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights.

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.

The civil rights leader’s lone poem, written from prison, reveals his love of language — and his quest for truth.

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.

The president is right to release the Kennedy files.

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

On two new books that critique identity politics and seek a new vision of political culture.

To understand discourse around “Christian nationalism,” look no further than the abolitionist hailed by many on the left.

On the evening of October 7, 1952, gospel promoters booked the Spirit of Memphis for a concert in Memphis’s Mason Temple.