Tag: Civil rights movement
John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and...
Jelani M. Favors, Clayton State University
As an 18-year-old student attending a training session for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John...
Smartphone witnessing becomes synonymous with Black patriotism after George Floyd’s death
Allissa V. Richardson, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
A flashbulb emits a high-pitched hum. A photograph of the legendary 19th-century...
Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local...
Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona; James J. Nolan, West Virginia University; Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University of Arizona, and Kirssa Cline Ryckman, University of Arizona
Editor’s...
Langston Hughes – domestic pariah, international superstar
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the inspiration behind Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” and...
The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr....
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In a recent article published in Standpoint Magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biographer David Garrow details new...
Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the...
Dave Tell, University of Kansas
In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a...
The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality
Michael V. Drake, The Ohio State University
When Sly and the Family Stone released “Everyday People” at the end of 1968, it was a rallying...
MLK’s vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in...
Joshua F.J. Inwood, Pennsylvania State University
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
