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Other Views: Mississippi has heroes who fought for democracy. Why is it marking Confederate Heritage...
Yakima Herald-Republic· 2 days agoThe right to vote was on the books yet out of reach for millions of Americans until at least 1964,...
Meridian to mark Heidelberg with Read In
The Meridian Star· 6 hours agoThe council was a coalition of movements coordinating their efforts to help register Black Americans to vote. In 1964, a massive effort to register ...
Voting Boot Camp Pushes Black Women To The Polls
Black Enterprise· 6 days agoThe group inspired Black women to exercise their right to vote during its “Power of the Sister Vote Boot Camp.” The event took place on April 27, and...
Opinion | Why Fannie Lou Hamer Sick and Tired
Mississippi Free Press· 3 days agoAt a rally with Malcolm X in Harlem, N.Y., on Dec. 20, 1964, Hamer described the brutal beatings she and other Black people endured in Mississippi in...
The South’s Got Now | Decidimos campaign seeks to energize youth vote
Southern Poverty Law Center· 4 days agoAs we set out to plan the campaign, we knew it would only be effective if young people of color...
The Rep’s ‘Three Mothers’ promising but overwrought, overwritten
Albany Times Union· 3 days agoA photograph of the women leaving the funeral of one of their sons inspired Bronx playwright Ajene...
'Freedom to Learn' protests have a clear message: 'We will be woke'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSixty years ago, during the initial Freedom Summer, hundreds of mostly college students joined local...
Miami University students set up encampment to protest the war in Gaza
WCPO Cincinnati· 1 day agoStudents at Miami University set up an encampment on campus Thursday night protesting the war in Gaza.
Examining the long history of the ‘outside agitator’ narrative
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAs university administrators and law enforcement crack down on campus protests over Israel’s war in...
J.Z. George’s descendant advocates for removing the statue of the Confederate icon from the nation’s...
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoThe great-great-great grandson of Confederate icon J.Z. George wants to see his ancestor’s statue moved from the U.S. Capitol back to Mississippi. Each day, hundreds visit ...
