David J. Garrow

Recently unearthed surveillance documents show how the FBI tried to destroy the Poor People’s Movement.

Revealing these materials could be considered “Hoover’s revenge.”

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

Behind his tough image, the longtime FBI director was a man of profound contradictions.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

Coretta Scott King described “a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The King children remain certain of that, too.

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.