Martin Luther King Jr.

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

A conversation with the creator of a virtual reality experience that takes you inside the protests leading up to MLK Jr.’s death.

Fast-food workers in the Fight for $15 movement are making the same demands sanitation workers made five decades ago.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

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

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.

Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.

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

On the trail to Montgomery.

A new book highlights performer’s wartime contribution and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights.