Iconic singer and fighter for justice during Civil Rights Movement dead at 82
Well, you probably should. Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice ...
‘The Spice Of Life’: how Marlena Shaw captured the soulful spirit of the 1960s
Revisiting the 1969 album 'The Spice Of Life' by Marlena Shaw, which captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s with its expansive sound and political activism.
‘Eyes on the Prize III’ arrives on HBO during a renewed ‘assault on equality’
HBO's docuseries, inspired by Henry Hampton's seminal civil rights documentary, picks up where he left off, taking us through the Obama presidency and to the brink of the first Trump administration.
The Sojourn Project provides immersive journey into civil rights history
When visitors enter the home of Jewish American peace activist Jeff Steinberg, they step into a living tribute to civil ...
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The Truth of a Love Supreme
This is the greatest love, a love supreme. The Civil Rights Movement captured this ethic. While Coltrane was soulfully revolutionizing jazz, the Black church was composing their own paean to the ...
‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
Jazz and 400+ archival artifacts tell the story of the Asian American fight for rights
At the Asian Arts Initiative's 'Crescendo,' music meets art meets archives that have never been digitized before.
At Selma’s civil rights anniversary, fears rise about the way forward
Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...
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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...
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From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
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‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...