Martin Luther King Jr.

A zealot through and through, he ran the FBI like a religious sect.

Much of what's happening in American race relations traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed.

Martin Luther King’s words are available publicly — for a price.

Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives.

The F.B.I. director promised to save American democracy from those who would subvert it—while his secret programs subverted it from within.

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

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

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

A new book traces the tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests in Birmingham.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

Dick Gregory was an activist, comedian, and trendsetter for Black vegans.

American policy continues to create problems for Central American refugees.

Georgia Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock is pastor of the church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

Langston Hughes, "poet laureate of Harlem," dreamed of an America that lived up to its ideals.

Why the Exodus must remain central to the African American church.

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

In 1959 there was a public debate on violence vs nonviolence in the pages of The Liberator magazine between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Williams.