Seventy years ago, right-wing and segregationist members of Congress orchestrated a confrontation between the two most well-known and admired African Americans in the country: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson

In these critical times, remembering what one of last century’s most courageous journalists taught us

Remind them that many of the most popular US programs were once called “socialist”

Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did

What’s unusual about the nine new members is that all of them prevailed in predominantly white and mostly suburban districts. Five of the nine are women

An unsung shero of the early 20th century, Rose Schneiderman organized women to fight for laws to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace

A new documentary reveals how the right-wing attack on the national, grassroots anti-poverty group ACORN was a dress rehearsal for our current toxic political culture

Regardless of his motives, Kennedy will be responsible for allowing Trump to name a replacement who, along with the other right-wingers on the court, will further erode American democracy

The great scientist was a radical egalitarian—but subject nonetheless to some of the biases of his time

Taking a knee is in the best American tradition of protest