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Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 5 hours agoThe summer of 1964 was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, demonstrating the power of ground-level activism and interracial cooperation. Anyone over 18 in Mississippi can register ...
Celebrating 10 Years of Comcast NBCUniversal’s Voices of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas...
KION 46 Salinas· 5 days agoFrom August 2023 through August 2024, Comcast NBCUniversal is celebrating the 10th anniversary of...
Civil rights icon Andrew Young shares insights at Kansas Bar Association meeting
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoTOPEKA — On a Saturday drive home in the late 1950s in Alabama, Andrew Young — then a pastor and...
Reggie Jackson Reveals Race Hell: ‘The N***er Can’t Eat Here’
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Sports· 16 hours agoBaseball legend Reggie Jackson on Thursday evening returned to the historic Alabama park that helped...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 5 days ago“He had such a wonderful perspective and hopeful perspective about America.” Khanna has introduced...
Emmett Till's story: Seattle museum turns pain into purpose with Juneteenth exhibit
KCPQ via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Northwest African American Museum's Juneteenth exhibit opens a portal to the past, highlighting...
Why is voter turnout always so low when so many communities are patriotic?
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn the 60th year anniversary of this nation’s most important, courageous and successful drive to...
From 2000: Notre Dame's Hesburgh reflects on Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Movement
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBy July 1964, Johnson signed that bill. The next year, the Civil Rights Voting Act was passed and,...
National Center for Civil and Human Rights celebrates 10th anniversary
FOX 5 Atlanta· 19 hours agoAtlanta's National Center for Civil and Human Rights is celebrating 10 years with a jam-packed...
Uncovering Dad’s unsung bravery during the Civil Rights Movement
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 7 days agoEditor's note: The writer's father, Everett Fifield Jr., was originally from Council Bluffs and...