Uninvisible: On Dorothy B. Hughes Uninvisible: On Dorothy B. Hughes
In The Expendable Man, the story of an innocent under suspicion is given a racial twist.
Oct 16, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis Dreaming in French: On Angela Davis
Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.
Mar 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan
Melissa Harris-Perry: How ‘The Help’ Commodifies Black Women’s Suffering Melissa Harris-Perry: How ‘The Help’ Commodifies Black Women’s Suffering
How does the movie The Help "photoshop" American history?
Feb 27, 2012 / Blog / Melissa Harris-Perry
Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin’s Uncollected Writings Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin’s Uncollected Writings
The Cross of Redemption tells the story of James Baldwin as a working writer: casual, lax and preachy, but also honest, angry and brilliant.
Apr 13, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elias Altman
Selling History Short in Mississippi Selling History Short in Mississippi
Why is Haley Barbour so eager to turn Mississippi into a civil rights tourist attraction?
Feb 17, 2011 / Beneath the Radar / Gary Younge
Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North
Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters
A report from the front lines of the civil rights battle in Greenwood, Mississippi—a very dangerous place to be.
Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / Howard Zinn
From King to Obama From King to Obama
Barack Obama stands on the shoulders of many as he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. One set of those shoulders belongs to Jesse Jackson.
Aug 26, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Cobble
From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama
Democrats have come a long way from the first Denver convention a century ago.
Aug 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
Sweet Martin’s Badass Song Sweet Martin’s Badass Song
Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul