The Year When Students of Color Put Campuses on Notice The Year When Students of Color Put Campuses on Notice
Administrators’ vague rhetoric about diversity and inclusion won’t end a growing movement to make universities reimagine themselves.
Dec 30, 2015 / Jailyn Gladney
A Retelling: The Clubwomen A Retelling: The Clubwomen
A writer reflects on her grandmothers’ struggles with progress and peril in a changing America.
Sep 2, 2015 / Dispatch / Margo Jefferson
What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy
On the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking history, Hammer and Hoe, author Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the lessons Alabama’s forgotten black communists can offer today’s activis...
Aug 31, 2015 / Sarah Jaffe
What the Media Gets Wrong About the South What the Media Gets Wrong About the South
We have stopped listening to those who can bring progress to the South, in favor of using it as a scapegoat for the nation’s larger racial and economic woes.
Aug 11, 2015 / Chisolm Allenlundy
Black Love Matters Black Love Matters
A dispatch from the inaugural gathering of a proudly diffuse, rapidly growing, hyper-local movement for black lives.
Jul 28, 2015 / Mark Winston Griffith
A National Day of Service Is No Honor to MLK A National Day of Service Is No Honor to MLK
Service, without activism, doesn’t capture King’s true radicalism.
Jan 19, 2015 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith
A Q&A With Angela Davis on Black Power, Feminism and the Prison-Industrial Complex A Q&A With Angela Davis on Black Power, Feminism and the Prison-Industrial Complex
“Like Nelson Mandela, we must be willing to embrace the long walk toward freedom.”
Aug 27, 2014 / Editorial / Frank Barat
Waltz for Lumumba Waltz for Lumumba
The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi was a true revolutionary.
Mar 5, 2014 / Editorial / Bhaskar Sunkara
March on Washington at 50: Commemoration vs. Movement March on Washington at 50: Commemoration vs. Movement
Representatives of the youth generation were cut from yesterday’s roster of speakers, but that won’t stop them from building a movement on their own.
Aug 29, 2013 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington
A tour through the magazine's archives confirms Gary Younge’s argument in this week’s cover story.
Aug 23, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel