13 Books By Black Women That Should Be On Your Bookshelf
BLACK ENTERPRISE welcomes International Black Women’s History Month by shining a light on these books created Black women ...
Thurmond set a record opposing civil rights. A Black senator broke it.
Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t talk about his Black daughter, though.
With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen.
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The Marches that Changed History: Selma, Derry, and the Struggle for Equality
Historian Forest Issac Jones reveals how the US Selma to Montgomery march influenced the civil rights movement in Northern ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Untold Stories of the Red Scare, a Hunt for Communists in Postwar America
In the anxious years after World War II ended in 1945, nuclear power reshuffled the global order, and fear of communist ...
NorthernIrelandWorld on MSN1dOpinion
Selma at 60: How America’s Most Important Anti-Racism March Inspired Black and Northern Irish Civil Rights in the UK
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil ...
Dangerous Learning: The Story Of The Struggle For Black Literacy
In his new book, "Dangerous Learning," legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
The Forward6d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
The Washington Informer7dOpinion
Remembering My Grandmother, Viola Liuzzo
The 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march and the 60th anniversary of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a Civil Rights ...
City Journal7d
The Rise of Civil Terrorism
Yet there seems to be little appetite for throwing the book at the activists ... consider the protesters’ actions through the lens of civil disobedience, recalling the 1960s civil rights movement, ...