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Girls to the Front!

Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor

‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer

Heroic Outcasts Who Reshaped America

Charles G. Sellers, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies at 98

The Surprising Origins of #MeToo

Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, Dies at 85

The Twists and Turns of Black History

‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion

The Black American City That Almost Came to Be

Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons

How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Imprisonment Changed American Politics Forever

Malcolm X, Laurence Fishburne and ‘the Theater of Your Mind’

Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man