Civil Rights
A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump
August 6, 2023
By: The Conversation
Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom
June 19, 2023
By: The Conversation
How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave
June 15, 2023
By: The Conversation
Supreme Court is poised to dismantle an integral part of LBJ’s Great Society – affirmative action
June 7, 2023
By: The Conversation
Black students in Washington state played key role in the Civil Rights Movement, new book states
April 29, 2023
By: The Conversation
Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has died– here’s how the 1955 murder case helped define civil rights history
April 28, 2023
By: The Conversation
Harry Belafonte leveraged stardom for social change, his powerful voice always singing a song for justice
April 26, 2023
By: The Conversation
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas moves to reverse the legacy of his predecessor, Thurgood Marshall
April 23, 2023
By: The Conversation
The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
March 13, 2023
By: The Conversation
Jimmy Carter: A Georgia peanut farmer who wrote the script on how to act presidential
March 5, 2023
By: Courier Newsroom