Martin Luther King Jr.

Recovering black radicalism.

On the abolitionists, Reconstruction, and winning “freedom” from the Right.

In 1968, impoverished Americans flocked to DC to live out MLK's final dream: economic equality for all.

It’s in vogue to call the new movement against police violence "leaderless." But as Ella Baker taught us, it's more correct to say that it has many leaders.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.

How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.

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.