What made the rights activist Bayard Rustin, who among many other things organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a compelling political figure? David Stein describes Rustin’s ...

President Trump’s ability to exert executive power during his second term without much pushback from Congress and the U.S.

Rep. Charles Diggs was a dogged fighter of racial exclusion and discrimination, though his tenure in office would end in scandal.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield ...

Sugata Srinivasaraju’s The Conscience Network traces how Indian activists abroad resisted Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. A ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was ...

Thousands of high-spirited demonstrators filled Princeton’s Monument Park on Saturday afternoon, October 18 for a No Kings ...

WESTTOWN — Mistakes and turnovers will hurt a football team in any game. But against a quality team like West Chester Rustin, if you make mistakes you are doomed. Friday night at Rustin, visiting ...

DOWNINGTOWN — With star running back, Amari Cannon, out with an injury and an offense that went stagnant for almost two full quarters, Downingtown West found its unexpected answer at just the right ...

The multitalented Nyle DiMarco is the winner of two reality competitions: America’s Next Top Model (2015) and Dancing With the Stars (2016). He’s acted on Station 19 and Queer as Folk. He’s a Deaf ...

This article appears in the October 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Sixty years ago, the leaders of the civil rights movement faced an unavoidable question: What now? In ...

Several protesters have been arrested or detained at a demonstration outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, where they demanded transparency and accountability from federal officials. While ...