by Jerald Podair, Lawrence University
As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my...
by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
For the past 12 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin...
by Atiba Ellis, Marquette University
In Travis County, Texas, home to Austin, a local Republican Party official allegedly knocked on people’s doors in November 2022...
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
In our new book, “Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America,” Rob...
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s message of love matters today. Tami Chappell/Reuters
by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State
More than 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther...
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back to Hughes’ poetry.
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by Jason Miller, North...
Sidney Poitier, seen here in a 1980 photograph.
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by Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King...
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Robert Gibson (born Pack Robert Gibson — in his father’s honor — November 9, 1935 – October 2,...
