And he called them out fearlessly.

Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.

The media casts Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as populists. But a civil rights activist reminds us that the great populist movements of the past channeled people's anger into a force for constructive change.

One side pits winners and losers against each other in a race for the American Dream, while the other wonders what might be possible if we work together to form communities, build schools and create a culture of mutual respect.

It is true that the South is beleaguered, but that only means we must do more to lift up those who are reshaping it.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman John Lewis have a plan to fix that.

The Nation's Ari Berman writes that racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

On the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," activists gathered in Marion, Alabama, to honor and commemorate those who died fighting for equality and justice.

Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When Martin Luther King Jr. died he was in the midst of planning a campaign to help the poor. "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income," King said.