Movements rarely collapse because the enemy is too strong. More often, they rot from within — through the loss of discipline, morale and political clarity. The civil rights leader James Forman warned ...

James Forman Jr. doesn’t need convincing that protests can change America. He just needs to look at a wall in his home. There hangs a photo (pictured above) of Atlanta police arresting his father, ...

When James Forman Jr. was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor many years ago, she encouraged him to go to work for the Department of Justice or a national civil rights organization.

When James Forman Jr. was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor many years ago, she encouraged him to go to work for the Department of Justice or a national civil rights organization.

Movements rarely collapse because the enemy is too strong. More often, they rot from within — through the loss of discipline, morale and political clarity. The civil rights leader James Forman warned ...

NPR's Tony Cox talks with reporters Laura Washington, a columnist with the Chicago Sun-Times and James Ragland, a columnist with The Dallas Morning News. On this week's reporters' roundtable, they ...

"WE ARE not born revolutionary. Revolutionaries are forged through constant struggle and the study of revolutionary ideas and experiences," wrote James Forman in the introduction to his 1972 book The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. James Forman, a civil rights pioneer credited with organizing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died of colon cancer, his son said Tuesday. He was 76. The son, Chaka ...