On Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, something didn’t quite sound right to Mahalia Jackson as she listened to Martin Luther King deliver his prepared speech during the March on Washington, writes Bev-Freda Jackson.
The divide in Israel today is between the right and the far right — those who want to repress the Palestinians and those who want to repress the Palestinians even more. For that reason, Arabs regard the protests as irrelevant…
An all-Christian American crew used the steeple of Japan’s most prominent Christian church as the target for an act of unspeakable barbarism, writes Gary G. Kohls.
In political and media realms, the people of color who’ve suffered from U.S. warfare abroad have been relegated to a kind of psychological apartheid — separate, unequal and implicitly not of much importance, writes Norman Solomon.
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.
The role of the former senior U.S. foreign policy adviser — who just turned 100 — has been overstated in the Arab world. But that is not to exonerate his crimes.
Both the late singer and his close friend Martin Luther King Jr. saw their civil rights advocacy as the cutting edge of a still broader struggle for equality, writes Sam Pizzigatti.
The legacy of Jim Crow in a state some call the cradle of the Civil Rights movement still runs deep, writes Natalia Marques.
Robert Kagan’s monumental error is his failure to acknowledge that Americans, like the rest of mankind, are made of crooked timber craving power for its own sake, writes Bruce Fein.
Far from “restoring peace,” officers in the SCORPION unit turned the streets of Memphis into a violent scene that led to death, writes Marjorie Cohn.
