Stokely Carmichael

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.

Dishing the African diaspora in Brazil and the United States.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

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

Much is at stake in understanding the history and relationship between black superheroes and black revolutionaries.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.

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

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era that is often contrasted with his legacy.

At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.

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

A new book recovers long-suppressed alternative politics.