Civil Rights movement
Emmett Till was the first George Floyd
April 22, 2021A Black Chicago teen’s lynching in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement. A Black Minneapolis man’s killing by police last year propelled a worldwide call for racial justice and ending police brutality.
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Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration
December 21, 2020Boynton’s arrest and Supreme Court case 62 years ago helped inspire youth-led movements for social change.
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A personal remembrance of two civil rights giants
July 20, 2020Two giants of the struggle for equality and human rights died this weekend, Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian, both lifelong fighters for voting rights.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 may have to be passed again
February 19, 2019The Voting Rights Act produced an enormous change for both African-Americans and U.S. politics.
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Amazing Aretha: L.A.’s Black community and others gracefully honor Queen of Soul
September 10, 2018LOS ANGELES—Hollywood is known around the world as a “company town” for the motion picture industry and television, but Los Angeles is also a music mecca. In January 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded the live album “Amazing...
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