Martin Luther King Jr.

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.

King was roundly denounced for his stances against the Vietnam War and injustices north of the Mason-Dixon line.

The canonical image of Martin Luther King Jr. neglects many of his most important intellectual, ethical, and political critiques.

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

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

On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.

The same Christian ideology that inspired J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to surveil MLK is alive and well in the Trump administration.

The Southern president, who kept his head down following Brown v. Board of Education, would eventually declare that “the time for discrimination is over.”

If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.

Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.

Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

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.

As director of the FBI for decades, J. Edgar Hoover helped build a massive, professionalized national security state and hounded leftists out of public life.

On the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.

We should find inspiration in their goals today.

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

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.