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Freedom Summer: 60 years since the iconic movement
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 4 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 ...
Martin Luther King III knocks North Carolina’s Mark Robinson in new ads
The Hill via AOL· 16 hours agoHuman rights activist Martin Luther King III is slamming North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s son blasts North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoMartin Luther King III, the son of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. said his father “would...
Civil rights icon Andrew Young shares insights at Kansas Bar Association meeting
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 9 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· 15 hours agoBaseball legend Reggie Jackson on Thursday evening returned to the historic Alabama park that helped...
Is the future of the civil rights movement in question?
WFMJ Youngstown· 2 days agoIs the future of the civil rights movement in question?
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...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 5 days agoAfter the years-long effort, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna tells theGrio, “There’s not enough knowledge about...
Rolling through history: Fort Worth’s new bus memorial honors Civil Rights Movement
Dallas Morning News· 4 days agoFort Worth drivers will notice something not from this era while riding down East Rosedale Avenue....
2 sisters, a farmer and a dentist are among those honored with Freedom Trail markers
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoThe Mississippi Humanities Council and VisitMississippi have been busy this month installing five...