Malcolm X

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

In Hip hop’s “golden era,” the period from 1987 to 1994, rappers used their platforms to bring attention to issues plaguing poor and working-class Black communities.

Alex Haley’s transcript of his famous 'Playboy' interview with Martin Luther King Jr. does not match what was published.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

From MLK to Obama, advancers for civil rights were driven by their fatherhood and dreams of better life for their own children.

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

The official newspaper of the Nation of Islam—published from 1960-1975—combined investigative journalism and Black Nationalist views on racial uplift.

Fidel Castro's visit to Harlem at the intersection of two themes that shaped the 1960s: the Black freedom struggle and global protest during the Cold War.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

Despite Freedom of Information requests throughout the years, New York still will not release records to the public.

James Baldwin's dispatch from MLK's funeral foreshadowed an America we may never escape.

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the Henry’s influence. The politician also served in key roles in Virginia’s state government.

What Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes failed to imagine.

A consideration of the evolution of Baldwin’s views on Zionism.

Starting in the 1960s, more and more Hollywood films depicted an increasingly violent and alienated American society quickly losing its mind.

The end of the big-city columnist.

A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.