If you were in the ghettoes of Newark, Detroit or scores of other cities that summer, you were not wearing flowers in your hair. Forget about utopia: You were staking out, in action, fury and bitterness.

Fifty years ago this week, in the summer of 1967, the streets of Newark exploded in violence. Here is a first-hand account of the tragic events that changed the city forever.

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

David Sirota says The New York Times is endorsing plutocracy in its editorial supporting Cory Booker for the Senate.

Forty years after race riots in dozens of cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for an update on race and politics.