If you are the Secretary of State for Alabama, well.... After Alabama’s Secretary of State John Merrill promoted the state's voter ID law at a church service held Sunday to.
Today is our annual reminder that the conservative cooptation of Martin Luther King continues in its grotesque march forward away from the truth into a fascist candyland of "colorblindness" to.
The children of Martin Luther King care about one thing: money. That's why the new African-American history museum at the Smithsonian has no important artifacts from King. When the museum.
Interesting essay on the connections between recent Black Lives Matter protests that block freeways and the long-term relationship between transportation networks and race. Transportation, however, has long been central to.
Judith Stein is one of the finest historians working today. Her book, Pivotal Decade, is a superb discussion of the 1970s and the economic shift away from manufacturing to financialization..
Rev. Ben Chavis, right, raises his fist as fellow protesters are taken to jail at the Warren County PCB landfill near Afton, North Carolina on Thursday,.
This is the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr and Coretta Scott King. Martin Luther King is a man who gave one speech in his life. In that speech he.
Very interesting Touré Reed analysis at Jacobin: The case for affirmative action — like unionization before it — proceeded from the view that anti-discrimination policy was in the public interest..
