“We can be better people, a better country, if we dare to imagine…”

Powerful & pivotal new book of extraordinary essays about our namesake Black Queer Pioneer Bayard Rustin “Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Politics & Protest” published by NYU Press, e dited by...

Rev. Jesse Jackson was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated there.

Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution [Joseph, Peniel E.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution

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Foundations can play an important role in helping movements not only survive but thrive. But doing so requires a shift in mindset—and accountability to the public good.

Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · 11/21/2025 · 1h 5m

The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.

To build the democracy we never had, activating people power—animated by an inclusive vision for our economy, especially through labor unions—is essential.

Philippe Reines, John Yoo, Gish Jen, Donald Kettl, Tanzina Vega, Cass Sunstein, Paul Dans, Kenji Yoshino, Sally Quinn, Peniel Joseph

Texas Book Festival brings over 300 authors to the Texas Capitol for the free event on Nov. 8-9, spotlighting UT professor Peniel Joseph, Texas literary voices.

Texas Book Festival brings over 300 authors to the Texas Capitol for the free event on Nov. 8-9, spotlighting UT professor Peniel Joseph, Texas literary voices.

At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all.

At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all.

At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all.

Historian Peniel Joseph on 1963 as an inflection point in the quest for civil rights.

President Trump described Smithsonian museums as “out of control” for emphasizing, in his view, “how bad slavery was.” It's part of a pattern by Trump in his second term to reframe historical narrativ...

Kimberly Atkins Stohr is joined by historian Peniel Joseph to discus the pivotal year of 1963 in the context of America's civil rights movement, exploring its significance, the parallels to contempora...

Listen now | Podcast version of my conversation with Professor Peniel E. Joseph

Hopeton Hay Podcasts · Episode

Join us for an exciting evening with author Peniel E. Joseph at the Museum of Boulder!

Podcast Episode · The Bookshop Podcast · 06/23/2025 · 54m

Podcast Episode · The Bookshop Podcast · 06/23/2025 · 54m

University of Texas at Austin history professor Peniel Joseph, author of [Freedom Season], talked about the pivotal events of 1963 that shaped the civil rights movement in the United States.

University of Texas at Austin history professor Peniel Joseph, author of "Freedom Season," talks about the pivotal events of 1963 that impacted the Civil Rights Movement in America.