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Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement news and analysis from The Nation
June 24, 2020
My town voted overwhelmingly for Trump, so I didn’t expect a big crowd at a recent Black Lives Matter protest. I was wrong.
May 19, 2020
Educator Jesse Hagopian joins the show to talk about the role sports played in knocking down racial barriers.
April 28, 2020
What Sanders and Warren supporters can learn from the long tail of Jesse Jackson’s presidential runs.
April 21, 2020
For the playwright and activist, neither liberal reform nor countercultural art were enough. The very foundations of American democracy needed to be transformed.
January 17, 2020
Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
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December 27, 2019
The attorney general’s obsession with protecting the police is a throwback to the crackdown on protesters in the 1960s.
October 17, 2019
The civil rights movement veteran, who was a stalwart champion of unions, challenged abusive presidents, and called out Scott Walker for lying to Congress, died Thursday at 68.
October 2, 2019
Gandhi's lessons of pluralism and peace could serve us well during this time of division and strife, the representative writes.
July 30, 2019
Forgotten history… Debating Biden…
July 18, 2019
A segregationist senator tried to use Robinson to destroy Paul Robeson. Instead, Robinson called out racism.
