A conversation about memory, movement-building and the sacred work of staying connected. In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev ... the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Gray, who is an ordained minister, attributed ...

1. Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and theologian who became the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement. His ideology was rooted ...

Guralnick, Peter. (1986). Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm & Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. New York: Harper & Row. Reiland Rabaka, Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing ...

The Civil Rights Movement was about freedom and justice. It was about combatting discrimination in which Black Americans were denied the same inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of ...

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project ... During the Civil Rights Movement, the Student Nonviolent ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued ... in American history. The Freedom Riders were a group of activists ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...

We've seen it before—in Reconstruction's promise cut short, and now in the unraveling of rights—reproductive freedom ... We live in an echo of the civil rights movement.

In interviews with Morgan, the three voting rights ... civil rights movement. And I knew we were doing something important, that we were helping to change Mississippi,” McLemore said. Freedom ...