Many people who were hopeful for change in the wake of Barack Obama's election have become disillusioned by the rancorous politics of the last few years. What does it take to sustain the struggle for justice over the long haul?
An open letter from a civil rights elder to President Obama.
Seventeen activists and church leaders talk about the disciplines that keep them girded for the struggle.
Song leader and scholar Bernice Johnson Reagon on what music teaches us about democracy, leadership, and the meaning of 'we.'
"You have not come to hear a detached, scholarly
lecture about the two powerful figures who are on our program. I
am deeply and unavoidably attached. Fully engaged.
When Ralph Ellison died this spring, he was primarily
remembered and honored as the African-American writer who in 1952
had gifted the nation and the world with that magnificent novel, Invisib
