Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights Movement’
Malcolm X’s family to sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD for $100M over his assassination
America’s Black Holocaust Museum – Malcolm X’s family to sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD for $100M over his assassination
Read More‘I Have a Dream’ is MLK’s most radical speech — not because of what he said then, but because of how America has changed since
Dr. King spoke passionately about integration, a radical idea that has yet to be fully achieved and still disturbs some people.
Read MoreFrom the first March on Washington to today, images of Black suffering reveal America’s painful truths
A long history of the Civil Rights movement in America is documented with pride and 60 year old call to action.
Read More‘MLK/FBI’ Review: The FBI’s Clownish Surveillance Of A Civil Rights Icon Is More Relevant Than Ever
In MLK/FBI, well-known documentary filmmaker Sam Pollard brings a Martin Luther King Jr. story never before seen on-screen. Using archival footage and interviews with those close to King and the situation, his new film shows how FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover spent years targeting King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Read MoreRead Barack Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis
Former President Barack Obama delivers an impassioned call to action while eulogizing the late Rep. John Lewis.
Read MoreSome Exhibits to Come – I Am Somebody! The Freedom Struggle
A sample list of exhibits planned for this gallery.
Read MoreTeens Plaster Vandalized Emmett Till Marker With Words Of Hope
By Elyse Wanshel, HuffPost Black Voices A civil rights landmark in Mississippi that commemorates the death of Emmett Till has been vandalized, The Associated Press reported Monday. The sign, which has been defaced before, was scraped so badly that information and photos about Till’s brutal death have been obliterated. Students from Cultural Leadership, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that…
Read MoreSchool Tries To Censor BLM Article. These Students Had The Final Say.
In a recent post, “School Tries To Censor BLM Article. These Students Had The Final Say” Zahara Hill sheds light on young black voices taking a stand for racial injustice.
Read MoreHow Rosa Parks’ Legacy Lives On In The Black Lives Matter Movement
Rosa Parks would believe that #BlackLivesMatter, too. By Zeba Blay, the Huffington Post Sixty years ago on this day, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and settled in to American history. We’ve seen the iconic pictures of Parks getting booked at the police station, or later staged seated on…
Read MoreCampus Racism Protests Didn’t Come Out Of Nowhere, And They Aren’t Going Away Quickly
Mizzou seems to have catalyzed years of tension over inequality and race. Tyler Kingkade, Lilly Workneh, Ryan Grenoble, The Huffington Post If there’s one thing University of Missouri senior Alanna Diggs thinks people are getting wrong about campus racism protests, it’s the assumption that they’re something new. The demonstrations at Mizzou this month…partly over how they handled…
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