Tag: civil rights
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...
The John Birch Society is still influencing American politics, 60 years...
Christopher Towler, California State University, Sacramento
The retired candy entrepreneur Robert Welch founded the John Birch Society 60 years ago to push back against what...
Why a large church group had little impact when it opposed...
David Mislin, Temple University
Numerous organizations demanded Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court be put on hold or withdrawn, in the wake of...
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Nearly a third of Pennsylvania gamblers are at risk of problem...
Gillian Russell, Penn State and Glenn Sterner, University of Kentucky
Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online...
