civil rights
Songs of civil rights movement ring out at White House
February 12, 2010Songs linked to the great social change movements of our times echoed through the White House Feb. 9, with Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan and other music legends at the microphone.
Read moreLorraine Hansberry home gets landmark status
February 11, 2010Chicago's City Council has given landmark status to the home of the author/activist who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun."
Read moreHow the Greensboro sit-in ignited a social revolution
February 3, 2010For us black high school students in the 1950s, it seemed like black people were always the victims. Greensboro was different.
Read moreDallas re-lives its Black history
February 3, 2010The Dallas Peace Center jump-started Black History Month by inviting the Rev. James Lawson, one of the most famous of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contemporaries in the civil rights movement, for a three-day tour.
Read moreSetting the record straight for Emmett Till
January 28, 2010A review of "Simeon's Story, An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till" and an interview with the author, Simeon Wright.
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