Rejecting the Southernification of MLK
Historian Jeanne Theoharis was in Los Angeles, scouring old copies of Black newspapers for coverage of the city’s Civil…
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Laughter of the Damned: A Review of the documentary Democrats
Here, people live in the shadow of a dictator
High School Athletes Flag DOE for Violating Their Civil Rights
One of the first things 17-year-old Abiboulaye Diagne shows friends who visit his home is the collection of gleaming…
Revolution from Behind the Walls
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era By Dan Berger University of North Carolina Press, 2014…
Columbia University Students Stage Campus Die-In
Columbia University students staged a die-in on campus to raise awareness about the institutional racism that not only exists…
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is one of the most famous moments of the 20th…
We Are All Still Trayvon Martin
One year after the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by vigilante George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, it is worth…
What Is Alabama’s Problem With the Voting Rights Act?
History will repeat itself in the chambers of the Supreme Court this week. The very state where the fight…
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call for Peace as Racial Justice Still Rings
I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we…
Civil Rights Era Murder Resolved After Forty-Five Years
After over four decades, 77-year-old James Bonard Fowler is heading to jail. The former Alabama state trooper plead guilty…