Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

Applying King to our contemporary moment.

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.

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

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

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

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

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.

In excavating the story of King’s visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather’s own fight for civil rights.

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau's campaign to destroy King's reputation.

King's visits to Milwaukee highlighted the extent to which the civil rights struggle was a national one.

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.