Civil Rights movement
‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion
July 8, 2021Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.
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Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021Few 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.'
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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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