Martin Luther King Jr.

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

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

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.

In excavating the story of King’s visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather’s own fight for civil rights.

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau's campaign to destroy King's reputation.

King's visits to Milwaukee highlighted the extent to which the civil rights struggle was a national one.

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

A conversation with the creator of a virtual reality experience that takes you inside the protests leading up to MLK Jr.’s death.

Fast-food workers in the Fight for $15 movement are making the same demands sanitation workers made five decades ago.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.

Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.