Angela Yvonne Davis

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.

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.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.

By the end of his life, inspired by the radicalism of the Black Panthers, Baldwin was again ready to proclaim himself a socialist.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

A look at how the word, a surprisingly recent addition to the English lexicon, made its way into the dictionary.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.

From Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama, meet 100 women who defined the last century.

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.

When the counterculture optimism receded, things got ugly.

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

CNN's firing of Hill fits into a troubling history of repressing black voices on Palestine.

In uncovering the blackness of Peoples Temple, I began to better understand my community and the need to belong.

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.

For more than a century, the American government has surveilled and harassed activists from marginalized communities.

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

Interrogating dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.