Tag: civil rights
How Joe Biden did so well in Georgia
Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
For nearly 30 years, the state of Georgia has voted reliably Republican in presidential elections. Not since...
Countries around the world are using border surveillance systems against their...
Keren Weitzberg, UCL
Hamdi was just an infant when his relatives first brought him to the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya to be registered...
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...
Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a...
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
The sound of Public Enemy’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” blared as face-masked protesters in Washington, D.C. broke into a...
The Supreme Court decision to grant protections to LGBT workers is...
Julie Manning Magid, IUPUI
No federal law barring discrimination against LGBT workers in hiring, promoting and firing existed in this country until this week.
Although some...
How one man fought South Carolina Democrats to end whites-only primaries...
Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina
A rusting chain-link fence represents a “color line” for the dead in Columbia, South Carolina. In Randolph Cemetery,...
Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta
Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia
As a historian who studies W.E.B. Du Bois – and as someone who once lived in nearby Athens, Georgia...
How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
Jackie Robinson will be remembered for his courage, athleticism, tenacity and sacrifice on Jan. 31, the centennial of his birth. By confronting...
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...
