With election season upon us, it's important to remember the past. Two rural communities in West Tennessee drew national ...

After a series of increasingly tense, circular conversations, Cook called in the closest thing she had to a cavalry: The ...

This is an opinion. Fred Shuttlesworth deserves better than this. Birmingham deserves better. I took a documentary crew to ...

It's easy to dismiss the relevance of the past, but many of the same issues plaguing America today are present in Kentucky's ...

The National Urban League's latest “State of Black America” report warns that the American Dream may be slipping away for ...

Visit the Alabama town that helped transform America's Civil Rights movement with powerful history, iconic landmarks, and ...

Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of civil rights martyrs. All of them were devastated by the court’s ...

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Turner was one of many Black parents whose demands for their children’s freedom defined the scope of the 13th Amendment’s ban ...

More important than what inspires me, a senior citizen, there’s a generation of young readers in our nation who I hope are ...

I know it sounds corny,” writer Dave Zirin tells Religion Dispatches, “but part of Howard Zinn’s secret—the reason he saw ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson opens a new conversation series by reflecting on why he believes Barack Obama’s presidency ...