Tag: Civil rights movement
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...
What activists today can learn from MLK, the ‘conservative militant’
Christopher Beem, Pennsylvania State University
In the turbulent days following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists launched resistance movements: Greenpeace activists climbed a large construction crane...
Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence
Paul Harvey, University of Colorado
After this last tumultuous year of political rancor and racial animus, many people could well be asking what can sustain...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
