civil rights movement
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Justice Department Continues Investigations Into Civil Rights Era Killings After Closing Emmett Till Case
Among the list of open cases are police shootings of Black victims, an arson that killed a 9-year-old girl in Philadelphia and the assassination of Edwin Pratt.
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PBS FRONTLINE’s Un(re)solved Examines Black Murders That Have Never Been Solved
Un(re)solved is a multi-platform project that examines stories from the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act list.
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New Courses About Civil Rights Leader Rev. C.T. Vivian Have Made It Into College Curriculums
This semester, some students are learning about the man Martin Luther King Jr. called “the greatest preacher to ever live” for the very first time.
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‘Her Life Is a Model for All of Us’: The Root Presents It’s Lit! and Dr. Keisha Blain on the Enduring Truth of Fannie Lou Hamer
The historian and best-selling author brings the story of the sharecropper-turned-activist to the fore for a new generation.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson Hospitalized After Fall at Howard University
The civil rights leader was visiting the students protesting their living conditions at Howard when he fell and hit his head.
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Alabama May Consider Wiping the Arrest Records Clean for Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks
Alabama officials are considering a bid to clear arrest records of civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, both convicted in the 1950s.
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NAACP Urges Professional Athletes to Stay the Hell Away From Texas Due to Recent Voting, Abortion Laws
Texas has recently passed a series of abhorrent laws about voting rights, mask mandates and women’s reproductive freedom.
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Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.