Civil Rights movement

Jobs, justice, preserving democracy key themes of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023 By Mark Gruenberg

Rev. Al Sharpton: “The Dreamers” Dr. King prophesied about in 1963 “are in Washington, D.C. The ‘schemers’ are being booked in Atlanta, in the Fulton County Jail.”

Anne Braden vs. white supremacy: The South’s rebel without a pause

March 7, 2023 By Heather Gray

Upon meeting Anne Braden in 1957, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., said she was “the most amazing white woman” he’d ever met.

‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion

July 8, 2021 By Patrick Chura

Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.

Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism

May 27, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'

Emmett Till was the first George Floyd

April 22, 2021 By Sophia Tareen

A 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.