Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and it sounded pretty fucking sweet on the radio. Even a bitter post-everything anarchist ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement.

Few individuals have left an impact as great as Maya Angelou across so many sectors. Best known for her autobiographical works about her experience as a Black woman, Angelou also wrote poetry and ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for years.

The civil rights leader gave furious clarity to black anger in the 1960s, but like several of his contemporaries met with a ...

On a special episode (first released on February 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: This year marks 60 years since of the assassination of Malcolm X, a civil rights leader who pierced the ...

US black nationalist leader Malcolm ... Bill, and he finally met Martin Luther King, Jr, a civil rights leader whose belief in nonviolent protest was often seen as being in stark contrast with ...

With roots in Georgia, Nebraska and Grenada in the Caribbean, human rights advocate Malcolm X spanned the globe to become a vocal supporter of Black social and political awareness and a renowned ...

Born Malcolm Little in May 1925, the fourth of eight children, Malcolm X rejected his last name as being one of slavery. He had journeyed up from London following an address to the Council of ...