Lyndon Baines Johnson

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

What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?

Her death is a useful reminder that students have often served on the political front lines.

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.

Released 50 years ago, the report concluded that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.

Instead of revitalizing the Democratic coalition, the commission's report exposed the fractures in American society.

African Americans are better off in many ways, but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality.

Separate hospitals for black and white patients were the norm in America, but then all of that changed — and it changed quickly.

A historian reveals the crucial role that he played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.

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

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.

The government’s failure to fully invest in higher education created our current crisis.

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday's spirit of unity and a country's legacy of exclusion.

Conservatives backed bilingual education until it became a progressive cause.

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.

We often forget that Nixon took decidely liberal stances on welfare, healthcare, and universal basic income.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.