At Blanc Gallery in Chicago, the “From Memory to Movement: Emmett at 85” exhibit brings together Chicago artists and community members to reflect on Till’s humanity and what it means to turn remembrance into action.
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“The Boys” actor raised a question about why the U.S. citizenship test completely excludes the Civil Rights Movement, sparking a
Priscilla Stephens Kruize played a key role in the civil rights movement at FAMU. Now, she needs support to cover
Sixty years ago, James Meredith began walking alone from the Peabody Hotel in Memphis as he began his March Against Fear. He was heading toward the Mississippi Delta to counter the swelling racism that had followed the passage of major rights legislation and to galvanize Black voter registration.
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Yang argues that Stanford should stop refusing to acknowledge civil rights historical recognition.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) — The version housed at Virginia Theological Seminary is not for sale, and archive staffers plan to seek the best ways to make its contents available for the public to view.
The African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) is developing a regional travel itinerary highlighting AACRN member sites. Six-part series consistent with NPS regional guidelines. This initiative is designed to strengthen awareness of AACRN sites, support heritage tourism, and encourage visitors, educators, and researchers to explore the places that preserve and interpret the history of the…
Jones, who helped shape King’s monumental ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President
We spend too much time thinking about money and not enough time creating new social conditions. Modern society teaches us to measure almost everything in financial terms: success, value, productivity, even human worth. Yet there are deeper forces that shape…
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Black Americans are wondering what’s next after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Voting Rights Act further weakened the chances of minority representation in government.
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The Historic Dorchester Academy in Liberty County Georgia is where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned the Birmingham campaign of 1963.
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The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, according to a detailed analysis conducted for The Washington Post. The shift brings to an end a streak of successive courts […]
Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement, died Thursday at a hospital in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie from complications from kidney disease.
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America’s protest tradition can only protect democracy when it returns to Martin Luther King Jr.’s discipline of nonviolence, Isaac Newton Farris Jr. writes.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Mason Temple was completed in 1945 following the destruction of the original church by fire. Today, the church serves as the world headquarters for the Church of God in Christ.
Mississippi’s warts-and-all approach to reflecting its history as part of the state’s official commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversaryis a stark contrast with what has taken place at the national level since President Donald Trumpreturned to the White House in January 2025.
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(RNS) — Their bridge building and organizing, they say, looks back to the Civil Rights Movement and ahead to November and beyond.
2,091 words Michael Youssef An Unholy Alliance: How Progressivism Brought About an Islamist Invasion Nashville, TN: Ascaine Press, 2026 On May 21, 2025, a gunman murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington D.C. Milgrim was not killed in the immediate flurry of gunfire; she was wounded and then killed by being shot execution-style as […]
5,714 words Ibram X. Kendi Malcolm Lives! New York: Farrar, Straus and Girou (BYR), 2025 A fresh biography of Malcolm X emerged for youthful audiences, authored by his fellow X, the illustrious Ibram X. Kendi. (There are sure a lot of Xs here—is Elon behind this?) The think tank gig at Boston University’s Center for […]
(RNS) — Not since the Civil Rights Era has the religious left so publicly and collaboratively protested in the name of a social question they regard as a spiritual one.
On March 10, 1969, around 50 Black students at Delta State University peacefully protested for equal treatment by sitting outside the president’s office. The protest was recognized with a new historic marker outside the building where it took place.
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Jackson was awarded South Africa's National Order of the Companions of OR Tambo in Silver in 2013
Jeanette Taylor, the alderwoman of Chicago’s 20th Ward, first met the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 2012. At the time, she was an organizer with the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, and her executive director insisted that she meet him. Taylor was nervous: She knew his national stature, his speeches, his mystique — and “sometimes when you […]
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Torsheta Jackson talks about sharing the weight of history with future generations and how teaching the past is vital so they can recognize and confront it now.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate diversity and failure to support voting rights, has died. Jackson was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, a Democratic presidential candidate and one of the world’s best-known […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to Jesse Jackson following news of his passing, recognizing his lifelong impact on civil rights, political empowerment, and coalition building. Harris reflected on…
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Hakeem Jeffries honored the legacy of Jesse Jackson, recognizing the late activist’s decades of leadership in the fight for civil rights and equality. Jeffries reflected on Jackson’s influence as a…
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama paid tribute to civil rights icon Jesse Jackson following news of his death, reflecting on his lasting influence and personal impact. Obama shared a heartfelt…
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Civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. Here is a collection of photos from his life compiled by the Associated Press.
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The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidatewho led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84.
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