civil rights
Civil rights icon George W. Crockett Jr. honored with a new biography
August 8, 2023George Crockett and Ernie Goodman formed the country’s first integrated law firm. Both are legends and, each in their own way, models for what it means to be a radical lawyer.
Read moreMLK’s 1963 fight to be commemorated with a new March on Washington
August 1, 202360 years since the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Read morePassing the baton: The Memphis metaphysics of Martin Luther King in ‘The Mountaintop’
June 26, 2023Hill finds the nuance in depicting a character with the status of a prophet, but who is, as those picket signs of the sanitation strikers he’s supporting declare, “a man,” after all.
Read moreHarry Belafonte—Gigante de las artes y la lucha por la justicia y la democracia
April 26, 2023Harry Belafonte, intérprete de múltiples talentos y muy admirado, murió el martes 25 de abril a los 96 años.
Read moreHarry Belafonte—Giant of the arts and the struggle for justice and democracy
April 26, 2023Speaking of himself, Belafonte said he was “an activist who became an artist: I was not an artist who became an activist.”
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