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ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE DOCUMENTS IN our archives is a letter that Martin Luther King Jr. sent to TIME founder Henry Luce upon being named what was then called Man of the Year. 1963, King wrote, will long be remembered as a period “that has carved

RE “INSIDE GAME” [JAN. 27]: The only thing missing in this article was information telling you how to join the “Jared Kushner Fan Club.” I enjoy TIME mainly because of your critical approach to the political events in the U.S. and the news from the W

IN A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO FEATURING Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka, as well as fans of different nationalities, the organizing committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games revealed on Feb. 17 the event’s official motto: “United by em

Barraged by sex-abuse lawsuits THOUSANDS OF MEN WHO SAY THEY WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED AS boy scouts may finally get restitution, though likely not in the form of a large payout. The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection on Feb. 18, meanin

IF YOU’RE FEELING ALL DREAMY ABOUT THE universe, here’s a pro tip: don’t tell Brian Greene. That guy can chill your cosmic buzz fast. I recently swung by the office of the Columbia University theoretical physicist full of happy, giddy questions and c

A few months into the Syrian conflict in 2011, I visited the Jordanian border at night, where shell-shocked Syrian families were crossing under cover of darkness to avoid sniper fire. A medic at the border post told me about a family who’d recently a

ON FEB. 10, ANNEGRET Kramp-Karrenbauer, the head of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)—and presumptive heir to the chancellorship—announced that she would be resigning as party leader, a position she narrowly won just over a year ago. A

HISTORY CAME FAST AT JACINDA ARdern. Just a few years ago, in 2017, having been a local Member of Parliament for a matter of months, she became a Hail Mary candidate for Prime Minister, a millennial woman thrown into an election at the last minute to

Nearly six decades after the civil rights act, black workers still have to hustle to get ahead WHEN YOU TEACH ABOUT RACIAL INEQUALITY FOR A living, as I do, you have a before-and-after story. The story broadly goes that before the Civil Rights Act of

TRACI BURTON IS 25 YEARS OLD, BUT COULD EASILY PASS for one of the seniors at Benton Harbor High School. Standing by the trophy case in the lobby, she’s small and youthful, dressed casually, like many of the students walking through the metal detecto

FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS, DOLORES ACEVEDO-GARCIA HAS been collecting data on the access—and lack thereof—that children in neighborhoods across the U.S. have to necessities like healthy food and a good education. She and her team at the Institute for Child

SPEAKING UP FOR THE POOR FOR 27 YEARS, THE REV. WILLIAM J. BARBER II HAS been the pastor at a church in the small city of Goldsboro, N.C. But on a recent afternoon, he could be found at a hotel in Raleigh, about an hour away from home. His work as an

THE WHEELS ARE STILL ATTACHED TO THE HOUSE trailer that Pamela Rush calls home, but the 49-year-old mother of two is trapped. A lifelong resident of Lowndes County, Alabama, she lives off disability checks, struggling to pay the bills on a ninth-grad

THE WINNER OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION will depend not only on who votes but also on who doesn’t. Four years after 77,744 ballots in three states gave the White House to Donald Trump, state lawmakers are battling over voting rules that will det

AMERICANS SPEND VAST SUMS ON HEALTH CARE. CERtainly, health care is expensive all over the world, and it makes good sense for rich countries to spend large amounts to extend their citizens’ lives and to reduce pain and suffering. But America does thi

THE STAY LODGE HOTEL ROOM IN CHARLOTTE, N.C., where Shanna Lee lives with her 3-year-old daughter, Lavi, isn’t much to look at. There’s a queen-size bed pushed up against the wall, a mini-fridge in the corner and a toddler’s pink kitchen play set pur

TUCKED AWAY IN AN OFFICE ON A QUIET LOS ANGELES street, past hallways chockablock with miniature props and movie posters, is a cavernous motion-capture studio. And in that studio is the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1963, on the day Martin Lu

YOU KNOW MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S “I HAVE A DREAM” speech. Or at least you think you know it—you’ve read about it in textbooks, or heard politicians quote from it, or seen clips in classrooms or museums. But chances are, you haven’t heard the full 17

JACKSON POLLOCK’S BEST-KNOWN influences are greats of European modernism like Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. But often overlooked is the artist’s time at New York City’s Experimental Workshop, founded in 1936 by David Alfaro Siqueiros, who along with D

IN BRANDON TAYLOR’S HIGHLY anticipated novel Real Life, protagonist Wallace—Southern, black and gay—has left behind his family and their fraught shared history to pursue graduate studies in biochemistry at a predominantly white Midwestern university.

By this time next year, a devoted gamer may well have a shiny new console hooked up to the TV: upgrades to Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox are expected for the 2020 holiday season. But cry not for the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One—the best games

ON THE DAY OF THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON, I WAS very excited about being able to speak to the crowd about civil rights. I was ready. A. Philip Randolph introduced me as “young John Lewis, national chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.” I