She's been lionized for her protest, but the episode hardly does justice to her career as a community organizer

Conservatives have convinced themselves the Rowan County clerk is the second coming of Rosa Parks. Yeah, not quite

MTV's traveling "Choose or Lose" vehicle brings politics -- along with music! celebrity! glamour! -- to America's disillusioned youth

By only associating patriotism with oppression, the left disarms itself in debates about the identity of the USA

Inauguration Day plans and memories from the members of Salon's Table Talk community.

Conservative media keeps pushing story that the most hateful person in politics is another MLK. Don't believe it

Remembering Rosa Parks, hating Elton John -- this week in TT.

UC Davis cops casually pepper-spray non-violent protesters, but watch how the students win

Laura Bush rocks out to "Sex Machine," Rosa Parks to sue Outkast, and Ben blames J.Lo for his sagging career. Plus: Oprah says Letterman's a bad boy.

We now live in a world with KFC-sponsored manholes and McDonalds-issued report cards. Here's why it's killing us

Tubman, Parks and Roosevelt are all worthy of honor. There's an easy way to make that happen

After 50 years, a new investigation of the murder of Emmett Till finally gets underway. Witnesses say more were involved than once thought.

Just in time for holiday shopping, a new book portrays the world's largest retailer as greedy, sanctimonious and grossly unfair to its female employees.