Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, a devastated James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.