Smithsonian Magazine18d
From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...
Seabrook resident reflects on his time with MLK, the Civil Rights Movement and Selma
John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
Chattanooga Times Free Press6d
Review: ‘Spell Freedom’ looks at literacy schools in the segregated South, including Monteagle’s Highlander Folk School
There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...
WFAE 90.710d
Remembering a North Carolina civil rights legend and champion of the poor
North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the death of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. He is ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution17d
‘Spell Freedom’ celebrates unsung educators behind the Civil Rights Movement
When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...
WUNC10d
Remembering a North Carolina civil rights legend and champion of the poor
North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the passing of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. Johnson’s work as a civil and labor rights ... in South Africa that followed ...
The Latest: Education Department guts its civil rights office
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of ...
CBS News23d
65 years later, Greensboro sit-in pioneer Joseph McNeil reflects on historic civil rights protest
North Carolina. The peaceful sit-in, which lasted more than five months, sparked a wave of similar protests across the South and became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. McNeil ...
Press-Republican21h
$8.5 million awarded to preserve 30 Historically Black Churches across the U.S.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...