Many Americans feel conflicted about protests, but that’s exactly how the War of Independence started. We commemorate the Boston Tea Party, a 1773 tax protest where citizens threw crates of the stuff ...

“Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, told ...

Benjamin Franklin was the publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a respected leader, thinker and inventor in the American colonies, when he published one of his most famous images: A snake, cut into ...

Stacker compiled images of student-led demonstrations from the past century to contextualize the history of protests on American college campuses. – Howard Ruffner // Getty Images The current wave of ...

Masaru Nakawatase was born into a world surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. His mother gave birth to him in 1943 at a concentration camp in Arizona, and Nakawatase grew up in New Jersey with ...

As thousands of Americans board flights and fill buses bound for Alabama for the “All Roads Lead to the South” National Day of Action,” Black communities across the country are mobilizing to combat ...