This new documentary looks at gentrification in New Orleans and its effects on the city's low-income communities.

It’s hard to imagine a Republican of national stature denouncing his party for being unfair to labor, for being too friendly with Wall Street, for failing to lead. But it happened in 1938.

The civil rights leader helped pass the Voting Rights Act and fought for voting rights over five decades.

A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world.

Major producers continue to pump out record levels of crude and world demand remains essentially flat. Could we, in fact, be witnessing a fundamental shift in the energy industry?

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

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting — and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

A new video from the Equal Justice Initiative sets out to explain how the myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.

Robert Kuttner writes in The American Prospect that the reforms needed to restore the country's shared prosperity are to the left of all the candidates, including Sanders.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.