A group of teenagers marching during a civil rights rally. Bettman via Getty Images
by Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana
Fifty-eight years ago in the...
Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images
by Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst
Signed into...
Civil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File
by Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University
Rev. James...
Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968. Bev Grant/Getty Images
by Rodney Coates, Miami University
During the...
Photo: Ryan Christopher Palmeter, the man suspected of shooting and killing three Black people in Jacksonville on Saturday (August 26) (Jacksonville Sheriff's Office).
On Saturday,...
by Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.
Known around the...
by Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan
As an acclaimed photographer and conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas has grown accustomed to criticisms of his unconventional...
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...
by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
For the past 12 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin...
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. conceptualized PUSH Excel, in 1975, to unite parents, teachers, community members, and popular personalities around the cause of motivating...
