Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’
South Africans Battle To Overturn Apartheid Evictions
Many South Africans are still fighting to reclaim land taken away from them during apartheid. The BBC’s Sophie Ribstein spoke to a family about its ordeal.
Read More118 Black Men Tortured On His Watch–Less Than 4 Years of Jailtime
Chicago police commander Jon Burge oversaw brutal torture of black men in custody, extracting false confessions that resulted in them spending decades in prison.
Read MoreWho Were the White Folks of Freedom Summer?
These white allies joined in the fight for civil rights in the Freedom Summer of 1964.
Read MoreGoogle Celebrates Black History Today
Google honored Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height with a “Doodle” on the search page today.
Read More“Spies of Mississippi” on PBS on February 10, 2014
Dawn Porter’s documentary about an organization created in Mississippi to spy on citizens and preserve white supremacy is available on PBS.
Read MoreJoining Together in Justice
In this opinion pieces, Charles Blow details the similarities between the fights for racial and sexual equality–and those who oppose both.
Read MoreGeorge Wallace’s Daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy Aims To Fight Her Father’s Legacy
Forty Eight years ago in Selma, Alabama an event that became known as “Bloody Sunday” took place. During that time the governor of Alabama was George Wallace ordered that the civil rights march be stopped and it resulted in the now infamous event. His daughter Kennedy Wallace has now become a fixture at the anniversary ceremonies and continues to fight for civil rights and help educate everyone on the mistakes her father made.
Read MoreThis Day in History, the NAACP Was Founded
From Wikipedia The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909 by a diverse group composed of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling (the last son of a former slave-holding family), Florence Kelley, a social reformer and friend of Du Bois, and Charles Edward Russell, a renowned muckraker and close friend of Walling who helped…
Read MoreWhat’s wrong with affirmative action – and why we need it
Journalist L.Z. Granderson understands the need for affirmative action–and where these policies fall short.
Read MoreThis Day in Black History: Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers is Born
We celebrate the birthday of Medgar Evers, a man’s whose death was one of the catalysts for the Civil Right Movement
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