The Martin Luther King That America and Obama Ignore
The full measure of King's legacy requires nothing less than to honestly wrestle with hard truths that he publicly confronted a half century ago.
Scalia Comments Shine Light on U.S. Institutional Racism
The Supreme Court justice has all but said that black lives don't matter.
Guns Have Been the Most Dramatic Weapon Used Against African-Americans, but Not the Most Effective
Generational neglect, demonization and the stigma that American society has attached to blackness go a lot deeper.
Defining Racial Integration for the 21st Century
The NAACP has a long history of promoting racial integration that is sorely lacking on a national level.
Baltimore Goes Beyond Freddie Gray
Baltimore's riots are rooted in decades of policies familiar to close observers of our nation's tortured racial history.
The Passion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
How race, war and poverty shaped an icon's final act.
Lyndon Johnson's Words for the Ages
Why the president's 'We Shall Overcome' speech stands as an important point in U.S. and world history.
Selma's Legacy--the Good, Bad and Ugly--Is Now
President Barack Obama marks the 50th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' with a stirring address in Selma.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream Lives
Today's protests and the release of 'Selma' show the continued relevance of civil rights struggles.
'Selma' Offers a Window Into the Civil Rights Movement
Selma is a film with not so much a message for our time but stands out, fifty years after the events it dramatizes, as a reflection of it.
Opinion: Finding the Real Unrest in Ferguson
A superficial focus on violence and looting diagnoses symptoms while missing the larger disease at work.
Racial Equality in the Age of Obama
Echoes of Birmingham, where Dr. Martin Luther King argued civil disobedience would bring the nation "back to those Great Well of Democracy"
