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Opinion | The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did
New York Times· 11 hours agoLast week I wrote about the protests that had come to dominate my professional home, Columbia University, and make headlines across the country. After students occupied the university’s storied ...
Medgar Evers receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, country’s highest civilian honor
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoAt her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare,...
Bennie Thompson applauds posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers
The Hill via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoRep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was just a boy when civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down...
Why You Need to Spend Juneteenth in the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement
Thrillist Food & Drink· 3 days agoAs the site of some of the most significant moments of the Civil Rights Movement, you’d be remiss...
‘Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.’ Trailer Shows How Label Thrived at Beginning of Civil Rights Movement
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA new docuseries, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., will look at the radical history of the groundbreaking...
Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pelosi, Gore, 17 others: Watch live
The Hill via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoPresident Biden on Friday afternoon will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people of...
Cinco de Mayo 2024: The civil rights movement that made Cinco de Mayo popular in the US
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoCinco de Mayo isn’t a really popular holiday in Mexico, believe it or not. But since the 1960s, it’s become widely celebrated in the United States due to a civil rights movement called the Chicano ...
Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
The Day· 23 hours agoA century or so ago, in an era of racial denialism, historians groped for any explanation besides slavery to define the war’s origins. Half a century later, in the aftermath of the civil rights ...
A 65-Year-Old Professor Describes Being Manhandled By Cops At Campus Protest
HuffPost· 11 hours agoDartmouth College history professor Annelise Orleck went viral Thursday following her arrest the...
No, Demonstrations Today Not Like the 1960s | RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics· 3 days agoThe current demonstrations on college campuses against Israel remind some of the unrest on college...