What History Books Didn’t Teach You About Rosa Parks
Most children learn about Rosa Parks’ contribution to the Civil Rights Movement thusly: She boarded a bus, refused to move to the back of the bus when a white passenger got on board, and was promptly...
View ArticleCongressman John Lewis Publishes Graphic Novel Of Civil Rights Movement
“Some of you may be asking: ‘Hey, John Lewis, why are you trying to write a comic book?’” said the legendary civil rights leader, smiling at the incongruity of this development for an audience at Book...
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Revisiting The Voting Rights Act: Could You Pass A 1960s Literacy Test?
When the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act last month, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the watershed 1964 law had worked as intended: Racial discrimination had...
View ArticleCivil Rights Leader Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Calls For “Deliberate Action” At...
Two elders of the American Civil Rights movement—Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. and Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell—went before a sold-out Cleveland crowd to consider “the unfinished business of race,” a topic...
View ArticleRep. John Lewis Laments The Police Killings of Blacks: “I Fear For The Future...
The veteran Civil Rights leader, survivor of a concussion and beating from Alabama State Troopers on Bloody Sunday, asks in a new essay: “If Bloody Sunday took place in Ferguson today, would Americans...
View ArticleREVIEW: John Lewis Continues His “March,” Offers Handbook For Nonviolent...
The second installment in March, Rep. John Lewis’ acclaimed graphic memoir trilogy on the civil rights movement, picks up where the first volume left off, but this book is more handbook than history...
View ArticleNew Nina Simone Documentary Introduces You To The Artist You Thought You Knew
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear,” Nina Simone wistfully told an interviewer in 1968. “If I could have that half of my life…” This search for freedom haunts each beat of “What Happened,...
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