William J. Barber II

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”

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

How Black landowners in eastern North Carolina are recovering generational wealth lost to industry encroachment.

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

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

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.

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.

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

Elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.