The Rollback of the Civil-Rights Movement Is the Singular Moral Failure of Modern American Conservatism
The eye of Sauron descends on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, eventually, Brown v. Board of Education. Goddamn, even this?
Smithsonian Magazine23d
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 ...
Opinion
Waging Nonviolence19hOpinion
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of ...
‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
Journal Star25d
How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
The American civil rights movement, a mass protest campaign against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States, came to national prominence during the mid-1950s.
The New Civil Rights Movement9d
‘Cowardice and Cruelty’: Rubio Slammed for ‘Huge Mistake’ Destroying American Influence
After enduring days of harsh headlines and relentless ridicule, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to his personal ...
The Atlantic26d
The Great Resegregation
The memo states that the administration seeks ... “This is really taking us back to a kind of pre-civil-rights-movement vision of America,” Sherrilyn Ifill, the former head of the NAACP ...
Dallas Examiner6d
60 years ago this week, the brutality of Bloody Sunday struck the American conscience ‘like psychological lightning’
How the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama in 1965 led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act, a pivotal ...
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‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...