Martin Luther King
opinion
A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE
opinion
SPEAKING OUT
Alexia Norton Jones, activist and daughter of MLK’s attorney, writes about surviving the predatory hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and why we must believe and fight for Black women.
SYMBOL OF HATE
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Equestrian Statue in Nashville is a monument to the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. Like its subject, it is a monstrosity with an ugly past.
BIG YIKES
The “Late Show” host went in on the first lady on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
UNAPOLOGETIC
The late Queen of Soul was “a black woman with no qualms about projecting that blackness to the world in all of its nuanced beauty,” writes Stereo Williams.
COME ON
A number of prominent conservatives seem convinced that Martin Luther King Jr. would have fought marriage equality. They are probably wrong.
The Thrill Is Gone
He was a sharecropper’s son who transformed the very foundations of modern popular music, with “Lucille” and his influential, innovative sound.
BREAKTHROUGH
Fifty years ago this week, thousands in the Civil Rights movement set out from Selma, Alabama, to march to Montgomery, and this time, triumphantly, they made it.