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How can Occupy activists build a foundation for long-term change?

Throughout the Arab world, we are witnessing nothing less than the awakening of several phenomena that are critical for stable statehood.

The full text of President Barack Obama's speech, "A Moment of Opportunity," as prepared for delivery at the US Department of State, May 19, 2011.

Ira Berlin and Steven Hahn want to counter the ways that the integrationist story of the American past casts aside alternative understandings of black history.

How Barack Obama has fashioned a personal and political identity by treating the history of the civil rights movement as a usable past.

Activists take inspiration from Rosa Parks, Gandhi and the Ruckus Society.

The spirits of the civil rights movement--and movements for social justice everywhere--were with Obama on this historic Inauguration Day. Artist John Mavroudis imagines the occasion.

Barack Obama stands on the shoulders of many as he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. One set of those shoulders belongs to Jesse Jackson.

"Change" is this year's Democratic battle cry, but if you don't know how it happens, you're not likely to make it happen yourself.

A rich crop of new books offers fresh insight into the ongoing struggle for civil rights in America.