The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, reversing a decision endorsed by Judge Sonia Sotomayor. We’ll look at the case, and what it means for affirmative action.

Martin Luther King said “I Have a Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial where Obama’s inauguration kicks off. We’ll look at the speech that moved the world.

Gay marriage banned in California. A big new movie about activist Harvey Milk. We’ll talk with gay Americans about this moment for gay rights.

Martin Luther King Day has a little more heat on it this year than some. From the cauldron of presidential politics has spun the question: who mattered more in the earth-moving civil rights revolution of the 1960’s — Martin Luther King, or Lyndon Baines Johnson?
The preacher or the president? Crazy question, say those who were [...]

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When John Hope Franklin was six-years-old in rural Oklahoma, a white railway conductor literally threw this very young black American, and his mother, off the train — when they had the temerity to sit in a whites-only car. That was eighty-four years ago.
Now John Hope Franklin is ninety, and one of [...]