Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

My life doesn't include a lot of trappings. The life of a pastor and civil rights activist isn't a glamorous one - at least it shouldn't be. I didn't wake up one morning and declare, "From now on, ...

This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern. The ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Supreme Court’s Chiles Decision Resulted from Decades of Legal Ground-Tilling A Senate Timing Update This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 10 This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 9 Audio ...

Civil rights groups such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Urban League ...

Jerry Mitchell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning reporter whose work helped jail several white supremacists for ...