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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jeanne Theoharis |Omar El Akkad |Alok Vaid-Menon
A powerful must-read that sheds new light on King and the Civil Rights Movement. For decades, biographers have focused on Martin Luther King Jr.’s successful leadership in the South while suggesting that his Northern activism failed because it lacked direction and local support.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sarah Kendzior |Andrea Chalupa |Joshua Hammer |Jeanne Theoharis
In this impassioned account, journalist Kendzior (They Knew) documents her family’s cross-country road trips in the late 2010s and early ’20s. “I wanted the kids to appreciate all fifty states before propagandists tried to prejudice them,” Kendzior writes.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Mara Cavallaro |Adolph Reed Jr. |Jeanne Theoharis |Laura Flanders
Activism / StudentNation / The board has banned “critical race theory” and decried ethnic studies, but a local group of Black mothers has a plan. “We’re going to use what’s available to us—the right we have as citizens to recall.”Ad PolicyThis story is part of a series on the 2023 election by StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jeanne Theoharis
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
bostonreview.net | Jeanne Theoharis |Lerone A. Martin
On this day sixty years ago, October 10, 1963, the Department of Justice signed a memo granting the FBI permission to conduct technical, wall-to-wall surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr. The eloquence and reach of King following the March on Washington had so alarmed the Kennedy administration and the bureau that six weeks later they felt drastic steps had to be taken.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Joan Walsh |Ethan Iverson |Jeanne Theoharis |Katrina vanden Heuvel
The news that Rolling Stone cofounder and author Jann Wenner might be sexist and a wee bit racist hit me like the 2017 revelations about sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein: Tell me something I didn’t know. I don’t mean to compare Weinstein’s crimes and predations with Wenner’s contemptuous approach to female or Black artists—Weinstein is a monster; Wenner is not, at least according to my knowledge and (minimal) personal experience.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
bostonreview.net | Margaret Burnham |Jeanne Theoharis
Margaret Burnham, professor of law and founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, has spent years documenting the regular and mundane violence that was fundamental to the operation and maintenance of the Jim Crow South.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Say Burgin |Jeanne Theoharis
Comment on this storyCommentDespite months of protest and hours of public comments, Atlanta’s City Council voted Tuesday to fund a project dubbed “Cop City,” a police training camp that will be carved out of the Weelaunee Forest. In the face of a diverse community overwhelmingly against the project, council member Michael Julian Bond invoked his father, civil rights legend Julian Bond, in his justification for voting yes.
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Apr 14, 2023 | 
portside.org | Jonathan Eig |Jeanne Theoharis
We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover’s animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover built an extensive apparatus of surveillance and disruption designed to destroy King and to drive a wedge between King and President Lyndon Johnson.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Jonathan Eig |Jeanne Theoharis
We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover’s animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover built an extensive apparatus of surveillance and disruption designed to destroy King and to drive a wedge between King and President Lyndon Johnson.
