The oft-repeated tropes about the breakdown of the black family can be traced, in large part, to a 1965 Department of Labor report called The Negro Family: A Case for National Action, also known as ...

Sixty years after its release, the influential and controversial Moynihan Report of 1965 continues to reverberate in the nation’s social welfare policy to the detriment of those it was supposed to ...

Sixty years after its release, the influential and controversial Moynihan Report of 1965 continues to reverberate in the nation’s social welfare policy to the detriment of those it was supposed to ...

Over 60 years after its release, the Moynihan report remains the most consequential—and controversial—analysis of the black family in American history. One explanation for its continued relevance is ...

John McWhorter has some thoughts on James Patterson’s new book on Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Moynihan report entitled “Freedom Is Not Enough”. In his critique on The New Republic, McWhorter ...

NPR's Ed Gordon is joined by Bob Meadows, a writer for People Magazine; Jeff Obafemi Carr, host of the radio show Freestyle in Nashville, Tenn.; and Haki Madhubuti, a distinguished professor at ...

Daniel Geary is the Mark Pigott Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought. Geary's ...

Discover the life and legacy of former U.S. Senator and diplomat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Going beyond the “Moynihan Report,” President Joe Biden, Ta-Nehisi Coates and others reflect on his ...

The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House, by Stephen Hess (Brookings Institution Press, 150 pp., $24) American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick ...

D aniel Patrick Moynihan, who died in 2003, might be remembered most for his erudition. During his 25 years in the Senate, ...