Stokely Carmichael

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?

The fate of June Jordan’s visionary reimagining of Harlem shows that when it comes to Utopias, the key question is always: “Whose?”

Late 1960s conflicts within the armed forces produced efforts to educate service members on racism.

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.

A new book presents an expansive vision of soul music.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.