In this clip from a 1973 interview, Bill Moyers asks Maya Angelou, who died last week, about the burgeoning women’s liberation movement and what it means to her.

Corporate taxes are near a 60-year low, in part because companies have become adept at not paying their fair share.

Since its inception three years ago, the Fair Food Program has played a key role in transforming the work conditions in Florida’s $650 million tomato industry.

Leaving homeless people on the streets costs taxpayers big money.

The journalist explains how government housing policies led blacks into the arms of fraudulent mortgage lenders and whites to dump their homes in 1960s Chicago.

For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates recounts an after-school fight he witnessed as a young boy, and how it has influenced his writing over the course of his career.

We’re at a critical moment in our economic recovery.

The Atlantic senior editor talks about black vs. white neighborhoods, the messages we send black kids and the elementary school experience that changed him.

A bill to restore many of the VRA’s key protections remains stalled in Congress. The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is yet to hold a hearing on the measure.