Tag: civil rights
From sit-ins in the 1960s to uprisings in the new millennium,...
Jelani M. Favors, North Carolina A&T State University
Of all the contributions for which Harry Belafonte will be remembered,...
Harry Belafonte leveraged stardom for social change, his powerful voice always...
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In May 1963, as civil rights demonstrations rocked the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Harry...
How video evidence is presented in court can hold sway in...
Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado Boulder
Body camera and surveillance footage depicting the Jan. 7, 2023, fatal beating of...
4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong – why The Onion’s defence...
Stephen Skalicky, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
If you’ve read, watched and enjoyed the work of...
The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before...
Roy Jones, Clemson University
When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme...
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by...
Sharon D. Wright Austin, University of Florida
Just five women and two African Americans, both men, are among the...
Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil...
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the...
How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights
Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...