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Martin Luther King , Jr.
June 23, 2020
Jennifer Wilson
The Many Sounds of Black Lives Matter
The movement has resisted an anthem. Instead, it has redefined protest music.
June 8, 2020
Rebecca Pierce
The Limits and Dangers of a Fixation on “Nonviolence”
On peaceful protest, “outside agitators,” and the radical agency of the oppressed
February 6, 2019
MagazineSam Adler-Bell
The Story Behind the Green New Deal’s Meteoric Rise
How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party
January 15, 2019
MagazineMicah L. Sifry
Resistance Training
What makes a protest powerful?
May 31, 2018
MagazineKia Gregory
Banking Black
Can divesting from America’s big financial institutions help fix racial inequality?
May 25, 2018
MagazineWin McCormack
RFK, Civic Republican
What a Bobby Kennedy presidency could have meant for American political life
May 18, 2018
MagazineAlan Wolfe
A Most Violent Year
The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.
April 16, 2018
MagazineElliott Woods
Fear
How the NRA sells guns in America today
January 17, 2018
MagazineRachel M. Cohen
The Fight for the Suburbs
How a battle over the Fair Housing Act could transform U.S. politics
April 13, 2017
Graham Vyse
Symone Sanders has some advice for Jeffrey Lord, who called Trump the “Martin Luther King of healthcare.”
January 16, 2017
Kenyatta R. Gilbert
What Shaped Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prophetic Vision?
King was a preacher as well as an activist, and that's no accident.
August 26, 2016
Brian Beutler
The MLK assassination is featured in a new anti-Trump video.
June 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Muhammad Ali, spokesman for black America.
March 21, 2016
Steven Cohen
When Castro Came to Harlem
The Cuban leader’s last visit to the U.S. before the 1961 diplomatic fallout can tell us a lot about our present historic moment.
January 18, 2016
Jamil Smith
Martin Luther King, Jr. Doesn’t Belong to You
Many have laid claim to the civil rights legend, obscuring the radicalism of his message.
December 28, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Critics slam Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s misuse of a Martin Luther King Jr. quote as unrest roils in the wake of the Tamir Rice non-indictment.
August 28, 2013
Julia Fisher
Dispatch from the Mall: 50 Years After the March on Washington
April 19, 2013
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Fifty Years Later: Letter From Birmingham Jail
January 9, 2013
Timothy Noah
How the New York Times Screwed Martin Luther King Jr.
August 2, 2012
Jennifer Homans
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