Martin Luther King Jr. became involved not just in fights over racial equality but also economic hardship. Ted S. Warren/AP
by Tarah Williams, Allegheny College...
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Howard Manly, The Conversation
Left out of GOP...
The Declaration of Independence declares the nation’s credo, that ‘all men are created equal.’ Tetra Images/Getty Images
by Graeme Mack, University of Richmond
The Declaration of...
Nat King Cole performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1960. Ebbe Wrae/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images
by Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton
Six decades after Nat...
Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial. Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo
by Alex White, University of Cambridge
On August 28 1963, a...
Writer Atiya (pronounced Ah-Tie-Yah) Irvin-Mitchell stands for a portrait in her neighborhood of Squirrel Hill on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
Americans...
James Earl Jones preps in the dressing room before performing as Jack Jefferson in ‘The Great White Hope’ in December 1968. Harry Benson/Daily Express...
