Provides essays on current topics including civil disobedience, social justice, nationalism & populism, violent demonstrations, and race relations.

Title from Web page (viewed on October 16, 2017).

"Civil disobedience" -- "Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power": Document Analysis -- Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union" -- Proposals Made by High School Students of East Los Angeles -- The Trial of John Brown -- Ella Baker's "Bigger than a Hamburger" -- Resistance to Civil Government -- The Occupy Movement -- We'd Better Pay Attention -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- Congress of Racial Equality -- Albert Gore, Jr.: "Understanding and Empathy" -- Bernie Sanders: "The American People Are Angry" -- Political Conscience -- Baldwin Voices Black Rage in The Fire Next Time -- Benjamin T. Jealous -- Hate Crimes: A Model Response -- Korean Declaration of Independence -- "The White Man's Burden" -- Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me -- Japan's Closed Country Edict -- Campus Police Departments Struggle with Issues of Race -- Ida B. Wells: "Booker T. Washington and His Critics" -- Walter F. White: "The Eruption of Tulsa": Document Analysis -- Ricci v. DeStefano -- Account of Participation in Sit-ins -- March on Selma -- Reflecting Violence in the Warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot -- Social Media Meets Social Justice: The Role of the Hashtag in the Contemporary Conversation on Race -- Toward a More Inclusive America: Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 Democratic National Convention Addresses -- Haunting America: Racial Identity and Otherness in Civic Society -- Wilson-Willie debate -- Presidential Address on Civil Rights -- William Pickens: "The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects" -- The Rebirth of Black Rage -- Terrorism in Charleston -- Barack Obama: Commencement Address to the Howard University Class of 2016 -- Black Lives Matter -- "The Bitter River": Langston Hughes and the Violent South -- On Civil Rights -- Unrest in Chicago after Police Officer Charged with Murder in Shooting of Black Teenager -- Barack Obama: Amazing Grace (speech after Charleston church shooting).