I certainly supported the racial civil rights movement; supported the goal of broadening access to higher education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Segregationist Jimmy George Robinson attacks Martin Luther King as the civil rights leader tries to register at Selma's Hotel Albert, January 18, 1965. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Freedom Riders, Mr. Belafonte explained, risked their lives to benefit the civil rights of human kind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Outraged by the lack of local law enforcement interest in the case, the black community and civil rights activists persuaded the United States Department of Justice to get involved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is not widely debated in the mainstream media or, for that matter, in civil rights organizations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of these artists had been encouraged to leave the South by pioneer civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who was also the editor of The Crisis magazine, the journal of the NAACP. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A bit of civil rights history may be helpful here. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later they began to focus their efforts on what they regarded as the most crucial civil rights issue—securing the right of black citizens to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would happen if all the Negroes in the South were suddenly given full civil rights? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Once in the Oval Office, Bush stayed on message, opposing affirmative action and aggressive civil rights enforcement, and embracing the drug war with great enthusiasm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many leaders in the civil rights struggle were afraid to speak out against the war, fearing they would be branded as unpatriotic, and the civil rights movement would be damaged. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had recently asked me to help him with an Alabama civil rights case involving law enforcement misconduct. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Given the magnitude—the sheer scale—of the New Jim Crow, one would expect that the War on Drugs would be the top priority of every civil rights organization in the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They didn’t trust the white radicals who dominated the peace movement, and they didn’t want civil rights linked with hippie protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was just as in so many civil rights organizations, he mused: the flamboyant male leaders make the speeches while the workaday women, most of them as plain as bread, make it happen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The social and organizational changes occurring at Langley were buoyed by the civil rights forces gathering momentum in the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King III were among those who traveled hundreds of miles to participate in what was heralded as “the beginnings of a new civil rights movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All people ever talked about after church were the Negroes and whether they’d get their civil rights. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may not be easy for the civil rights community to have a candid conversation about any of this. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg drew sharply different lessons from the history of the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Allen wasn’t a foot soldier in the civil rights struggle anymore. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But the riots have a common cause, as named by the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

News of the DAR’s ban had caused an angry controversy and set the stage for a historic event in the struggle for civil rights. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit claiming the study violated the boys’ civil rights and breached confidentiality of doctor-patient relationships by releasing results to state and juvenile courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Voting Rights Act has been called the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

No matter how much that had hurt Hanako, in Tule Lake she had become incredibly proud of her father for standing his ground and asking for their civil rights back before he would serve. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So that single answer, where he mentioned their civil rights, was why he was brought in for questioning and eventually branded “disloyal” and the family was sent from Jerome to Tule Lake. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This was my state of mind when Dr. Kimball began to lecture on something called the civil rights movement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After 1919, the next large-scale unrest exploded nearly a half century later, when blacks took to the streets in cities across the country during the civil rights movement. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lately, the meetings is more about civil rights than keeping the streets clean and who gone work at the clothing exchange. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They envisioned thousands of black brothers converging together upon Washington—to lie down in the streets, on airport runways, on government lawns— demanding of the Congress and the White House some concrete civil rights action. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The falcons and owls and eagles have no civil rights because you discriminate against them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

McKissick told reporters that the sit-in was actually sponsored by several national and local civil rights and religious organizations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The prevailing public consensus affects everyone, including civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, at the same time that civil rights were being identified as a threat to law and order, the FBI was reporting fairly dramatic increases in the national crime rate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The legal question was whether condemned prisoners could file civil rights actions to challenge arguably unconstitutional methods of execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a subsequent press poll, not one Congressman or Senator with a previous record of opposition to civil rights said he had changed his views. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They support the civil rights movement,” he reported. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Days later a third bomb was sent to a civil rights office in Florida and a fourth to a courthouse in Atlanta. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Despite these important efforts, what is most striking about the civil rights community’s response to the mass incarceration of people of color is the relative quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Across the country students were rioting over civil rights, Vietnam, social justice, and government cover-ups involving tapping phones and secret wars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had made national news in the 1960s as a fierce opponent of civil rights and racial integration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The article claimed King’s decision “to divert the energies of the civil rights movement to the Vietnam issue is both wasteful and self-defeating.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is important now to remember that the early leaders of the northern civil rights movement were from the South. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.J. thought my case might be a good civil rights case. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Would an all-out rupture between the two of them cause the whole civil rights movement to lose ground? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The awkward silence of the civil rights community, however, is more problematic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had only referred to his race in two ways—as African American and black—terms that had become popular after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On June 12, 1963, President Kennedy announced that he would deliver to Congress a strong civil rights bill, a declaration that transformed him into a widely recognized ally of the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Let some civil rights “leader” make some statement, displeasing to the white public power structure, and the reporters, in an effort to whip him back into line, would try to use me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

While dramatic progress was apparent in the political and social realms, civil rights activists became increasingly concerned that, without major economic reforms, the vast majority of blacks would remain locked in poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“In the fight for civil rights, for instance, there was sometimes violence. Terrible violence. But it eventually led to good as the minds and hearts of people were changed.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The elected leaders of the African American community have a much broader mandate than civil rights groups, but they, too, frequently overlook criminal justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All around them, the image of the Domino King grinned out of shiny, scribbled-on photographs with various celebrities and back-in-the-day civil rights leaders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Barack and I both knew what this day represented to many Americans, especially those who’d been a part of the civil rights movement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The answer is not that civil rights advocates are indifferent to racial bias in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

More than forty years later, civil rights advocacy is stuck in a model of advocacy King was determined to leave behind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The big civil rights oiganizations right at this time had been publicly squabbling about donations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew that Judge Johnson was sympathetic to the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And night after night, Jesse Helms filled the airwaves with vague but alarming allegations of conspiracy and demanded that the authorities investigate civil rights groups. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lead established, other civil rights groups followed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there was always some do-gooder civilian banging on about civil rights. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Board of Education has created a widespread perception that civil rights lawyers are the most important players in racial justice advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The NAACP, the civil rights organization most closely identified with the concert, reaped substantial rewards. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It helped create the format of the modern civil rights demonstration, and it established the Lincoln Memorial as moral high ground for generations of protesters. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Ironically, it was precisely this framing that ensured that the events in Jena would not actually launch a “new civil rights movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Liberals, by contrast, insisted that social reforms such as the War on Poverty and civil rights legislation would get at the “root causes” of criminal behavior and stressed the social conditions that predictably generate crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even after all they'd done, their focus was always on what they still planned to do for civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And, like the Jews in Germany, Japanese American citizens—men, women, and children—were rounded up and forced to live in internment camps with no regard for their civil rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As we all know, nonviolence and passive resistance would eventually spread through the world, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., in the fight for civil rights in America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The controversy over the bus boycott vaulted the young Dr. King into the national headlines as the leader of the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Where were the protestors and civil rights leaders when their children were tried as adults and carted off to adult prisons? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 1967, their campaign against southern segregation laws successful at last, black civil rights leaders were turning their attention to the North, a North they no longer saw in contrast to the South. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Saying that colorblindness is the problem may alarm some in the civil rights community, especially the pollsters and political consultants who have become increasingly influential in civil rights advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Moderate black leaders quickly distanced themselves from him, saying it was crucial the focus remain solely on civil rights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from this list was the NAACP, the country’s dominant civil rights organization since 1909, but still dedicated to the slower tactic of filing legal challenges to segregation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

King himself would recognize and decry this fundamental flaw in the early civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said “the so-called moderate” civil rights organizations avoided him as “too militant” and the “so-called militants” avoided him as “too moderate.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The once-sleepy city of Selma was now the storm center of the civil rights movement, and tensions were rising. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not coincidence that the leadership of the southern civil rights movement was drawn mainly from a well-educated black middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The progressives of the Stability Research group, regardless of their actual political practices, were certainly open to accusations of subversion for their embrace of “dangerous” ideas like racial integration, civil rights, and equality for women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What makes the black man think of himself as only an internal United States issue is just a catch-phrase, two words, “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Challenging mass incarceration requires something civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to do: advocacy on behalf of those labeled criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It may be that traditional civil rights organizations simply cannot, or will not, change. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rather than blaming civil rights groups, however, it is far more productive to understand the reasons why the response to mass incarceration has been so constrained. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So Professor Hunk was talking about civil rights and Jewish guy says, “The blacks have not suffered like the Jews.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Political and economic stagnation undermined many black Americans’ confidence in the old tactics of the civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The southern movement gave impetus initially to the civil rights drives of nonwhite Americans in the North. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, how could civil rights organizations, some of which are larger and better funded than at any point in American history, have allowed this human rights nightmare to occur on their watch? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I hate when a teacher assumes that just because I’m Black, I’ll know all about slavery and civil rights and stuff like that. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The leaders indefatigable activism, unrelenting pressure, and superior organizing skills laid the foundation for what, in the 1960s, would come to be known as the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

These goof sessions, which almost always ended as earnest talks on civil rights, often went on until Mommy got home from work. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he’d follow a civil rights case, especially when it was in Mississippi, and he probably couldn’t wait to get my eyewitness account of the whole trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The civil rights movement cleared the way legally so we could progress. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The most ardent opponents of civil rights legislation and desegregation were the most active on the emerging crime issue. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After it sponsored a membership drive for the foundering local branch of the NAACP, the civil rights organization grew from 11 to nearly 2,000 members, making it the largest affiliate in the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean... he was an activist? With the civil rights... ?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He asked the Reichstag members to suspend civil rights, and they did. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think—as I thought in 1967—that the black civil rights leaders were correct: Higher education was not, nor is it yet, accessible to many black Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged growing numbers of civil rights activists, black and white, to challenge laws that enforced segregation. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the past twenty years, virtually every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country has mobilized and rallied in defense of affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He is threatening to sue the school district and Mr. Neck for everything from incompetence to civil rights violations. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We are all equally surprised that we have been designated civil rights icons who changed history in the eyes of historians and the American people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Black churches active in the civil rights movement were at risk of being burned or bombed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The predictable response is that civil rights advocates are as committed to challenging mass incarceration and other forms of structural racism as they are to preserving affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The city was trying to attract businesses to its new Research Triangle Park and the civil rights pioneers figured that local stores, wanting to avoid any bad publicity, would be “pushovers.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is no question that the historic civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s owed its existence to the summer of 1919, when organized black resistance to white abuse first became a reality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He argued then that the time had come for racial justice advocates to shift from a civil rights to a human rights paradigm, and that the real work of movement building had only just begun. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Particularly since the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s, the telltale signs of societal progress had finally taken root among black Americans. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

How is the black man going to get “civil rights” before first he wins his human rights? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in the 1950s, a civil rights movement was brewing, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decisions and a shifting domestic and international political environment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nonreligious white liberals have typically downplayed the role of religion in the civil rights movement, but historian Aldon Morris is correct in asserting that the lunch-counter protests were not primarily a college phenomenon. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The controversy surrounding military tribunals and civil rights continues. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It concluded that Title VI does not provide a “private right of action” to ordinary citizens and civil rights groups; meaning that victims of discrimination can no longer sue under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1964 near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, three young civil rights workers—two white, one black—were killed by a mob of Klansmen for helping local blacks register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says this to Isaac because Isaac’s grandparents were part of the Young Lords Party, a Puerto Rican civil rights group. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Part of the answer is that civil rights organizations—like all institutions—are comprised of fallible human beings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One very vocal opponent of the tide of ethnic imitation was the writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W. E. B. Du Bois. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I’d seem to slip and mention some recent so-called civil rights “advance.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the 1970s, conservatives generally gave lip service to the goal of racial equality but actively resisted desegregation, busing, and civil rights enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When we landed on the topic of Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement, I wound up telling her about this Be Like Martin experiment. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The racial imagery associated with the riots gave fuel to the argument that civil rights for blacks led to rampant crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of black clergymen, journalists, civil rights activists, teachers, lawyers, students and anyone suspected of subversive acts had been detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d charge us with integration violation—I read about it in the paper all the time—they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But it is a daunting task; the Washington Post has called voter suppression “the civil rights issue of this era.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a shocking, groundbreaking speech, especially from a civil rights leader. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Good. Then get going. Before this civil rights thing blows over.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As public attention shifted from the streets to the courtroom, the extraordinary grassroots movement that made civil rights legislation possible faded from public view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Why the outpouring of support and the promises of a “new civil rights movement” on behalf of the Jena youth but not their children? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Support for the legislation was so widespread that several Southern lawmakers cast their first vote ever for a civil rights bill. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half of your donation goes to civil rights for colored people in the South. So they can get their rights. They're going to be really happy with your contribution.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6 in the ornate President’s Room of the Capitol as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders looked on. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The introduction explained that “despite the civil rights victories of our past, racial prejudice still pervades the criminal justice system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest collaborator and had inherited the mantle of his Poor People’s Campaign, the second phase of the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But outside of the death penalty arena, civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to leap to the defense of those viewed as criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t turn around without hearing about some ‘civil rights advance’! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conservative politicians who embraced this rhetoric purposefully failed to distinguish between the direct action tactics of civil rights activists, violent rebellions in inner cities, and traditional crimes of an economic or violent nature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Whitney Young was named for a civil rights activist and had been opened in 1975 as a positive-minded alternative to busing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, the walls are covered with photographs of civil rights leaders, politicians, and celebrities who have eaten here, like James Brown and pre-heart-bypass Bill Clinton. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Two of the most potent social campaigns of the past half-century were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, which demonized discrimination against blacks and women, respectively. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Scores of civil rights leaders were arrested and sent to serve life sentences in the maximum-security penitentiary on Robben Island, in the cold Atlantic Ocean. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if civil rights organizations and African American leaders in the 1940s had not placed Jim Crow segregation at the forefront of their racial justice agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Condemning “welfare queens” and criminal “predators,” he rode into office with the strong support of disaffected whites—poor and working-class whites who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party’s embrace of the civil rights agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Remember the bomb blast at the airport when a civil rights lawyer was traveling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

More important, the defamation lawsuits chilled sympathetic coverage of civil rights activism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is a fundamental disconnect today between the world of civil rights advocacy and the reality facing those trapped in the new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He never heard of civil rights, but we all had our pride. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

King, along with other civil rights leaders, was arrested a number of times. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said that the American black man needed to quit thinking what the white man had taught him—which was that the black man had no alternative except to beg for his so-called “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She viewed the civil rights achievements of black Americans with pride, as if they were her own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, it’s not that civil rights advocates don’t care; we do. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1884, two years after his first wife died, abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass married a white woman, Helen Pitts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mother shut the door, revealing a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. that I’d put up four years before, when I’d learned of the civil rights movement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Over the years, civil rights lawyers have made heroic efforts to save the lives of condemned people on death row. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He should “stay in his place,” a derisive way of putting down both his race and his domestic civil rights work. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern states to desegregate public facilities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

African Americans, largely excluded from this new industry, found themselves confronting new economic challenges even as they won basic civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ruling marked a significant victory for freedom of the press, and it liberated media outlets and publishers to talk more honestly about civil rights protests and activism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many of them already knew of Carey from his role as field secretary of the nation’s oldest and preeminent direct-action civil rights group: the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The federal government no longer made any effort to enforce federal civil rights legislation, and funding for the Freedmen’s Bureau was slashed to such a degree that the agency became virtually defunct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Speaking from the steps of the capitol, prominent civil rights leaders and ordinary citizens recalled the turbulent events at Selma that had turned the voting rights campaign into a mass protest against racial injustice. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

II When civil rights leaders first demanded the admission of minority students to higher education, academic officials could have challenged their critics to seek the more important reform of primary and secondary education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, civil rights advocates have launched important reform efforts, most notably the campaigns challenging felon disenfranchisement laws, crack-sentencing policies, and racial profiling by law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If something akin to a racial caste system truly exists, why has the civil rights community been so slow to acknowledge it? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Civil rights was “a moral issue,” Johnson was declaring to everybody—while his best friend was the Southern racist who led the civil rights opposition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking our cue from the courageous civil rights advocates who brazenly refused to defend themselves, marching unarmed past white mobs that threatened to kill them, we, too, must be the change we hope to create. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Working on the railroad was considered a good job, and A. Philip Randolph, perhaps the most important figure in the civil rights movement, was making it a better job. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

However, his no-compromise policy on racial slights of any sort would have a direct and indirect influence on the civil rights actions of the 1950s and 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But today, civil rights is a dominating issue in every state, crowding the pages of the press and the daily conversation of white Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Attorney General Tom C. Clark developed a list of these organizations, which included everything from African American civil rights groups to labor unions and virtually anyone associated with communism or the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So to be left really alone is like a gift of civil rights. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black civil rights leaders continued to agitate, but the apartheid machinery ground on unheeding. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There also remains a persistent tendency in the civil rights community to treat the criminal justice system as just another institution infected with lingering racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those of us in the civil rights community are not immune to the racial stereotypes that pervade media imagery and political rhetoric; nor do we operate outside of the political context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then there was President Johnson, who’d worked so steadily with King on civil rights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This view was a reaction against the civil rights movement and student activism of the 1960s and was seen as objective and fair. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As president he envisioned what he called his Great Society—an ambitious set of programs including civil rights legislation and expanded access to quality education and health care. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The defection rate shot up to 34 percent among those Democrats who believed civil rights leaders were pushing “too fast.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision and endorsed by civil rights litigators “did not offer poor whites even an elementary framework for understanding what they might gain as a result of integration.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As a society, our collective understanding of racism has been powerfully influenced by the shocking images of the Jim Crow era and the struggle for civil rights. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the more powerful civil rights organizations will no doubt cover me with laurels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young militant leaders were emerging in the civil rights struggle, making Johnson nervous. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Well-known segregationist George Wallace, for example, argued that “the same Supreme Court that ordered integration and encouraged civil rights legislation” was now “bending over backwards to help criminals.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gathered around Meredith’s hospital bed, leaders from three civil rights organizations—SCLC, SNCC, and CORE—vowed to complete the march for the fallen activist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Leading the procession along with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders were an Episcopal bishop, a Jewish rabbi, a United Nations diplomat, and four Catholic nuns wearing long black habits. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chestnut was fiery and had done a lot of work in the black community to enforce civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were heading to the local jail to protest the arrest earlier that day of a civil rights worker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Widespread preoccupation with litigation, however, is not the only—or even the main—reason civil rights groups have shied away from challenging the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that the last question could plausibly be answered yes raises serious questions for the civil rights community. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Such was the case of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was very religious and a good student, and he had the kind of reputation that allowed the family to persuade civil rights leaders to push for an investigation into his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They feared that their church, like many others active in the civil rights movement, would be bombed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Court ruled unanimously in our favor, deciding that a condemned prisoner could challenge unconstitutional methods of execution by filing a civil rights case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Was he maneuvering to now join the major civil rights leaders whom he had previously bitterly attacked? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to file a civil rights case. For you, and other students of color who are punished disproportionately.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Papa said, “This is what we call above-board legal threats against our community that if we proceed to exercise our legal civil rights, they are going to punish us.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomber seemed to be attacking legal professionals connected to civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I told him I was a writer, touring the Deep South to study living conditions, civil rights, etc., but I did not tell him I would do this as a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals early, often in their teens, making them “damaged goods” from the perspective of traditional civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He contended that if the leaders of the established civil rights organizations persisted, the social struggle would end in bloodshed because he was certain the white man would never concede full integration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the progress of the southern black civil rights movement, which was gaining prominent notice in Sacramento’s afternoon newspaper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He characteristically decided to stand on principle in a major civil rights case. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One day, civil rights organizations may be embarrassed by how long it took them to move out of denial and do the hard work necessary to end mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When King’s staff learned that state troopers would almost certainly block the march, they advised the civil rights leader to remain in Atlanta. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chinese ambassador to the United States attended, along with prominent government officials and civil rights leaders. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

This was the first major civil rights victory won through widespread public protests. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter 6 reflects on what acknowledging the presence of the New Jim Crow means for the future of civil rights advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With extraordinary bravery, civil rights leaders, activists, and progressive clergy launched boycotts, marches, and sit-ins protesting the Jim Crow system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On Monday, civil rights attorneys asked federal judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. to issue an injunction, forbidding the state of Alabama to interfere with Tuesday’s planned march. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hoover incorrectly believed both the peace movement and the civil rights movement were Communist attempts to take over the entire United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I said that to me, one proof that all the civil rights posturing of so many Jews wasn’t sincere was that so often in the North the quickest segregationists were Jews themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The civil rights assault had failed because of defections in the ranks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a large contingent of whites headed toward Hayti, they came face to face with another group of blacks not traditionally aligned with the civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa Parks opened the door for one of the most famous boycotts of our time and introduced the struggle for civil rights. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Support of civil rights legislation was derided by Southern conservatives as merely “rewarding lawbreakers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With criminal records, the majority of young black men in urban areas are not seen as attractive plaintiffs for civil rights litigation or good “poster boys” for media advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her case attracted national attention, but civil rights advocates declined to use her as a plaintiff because she got pregnant by an older man shortly after her arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With all deliberate speed, civil rights organizations became “professionalized” and increasingly disconnected from the communities they claimed to represent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and once again led to a spike in the use of Confederate imagery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was nothing like my friends’ parents, who were younger, drove new cars, followed the Mets, talked about civil rights, and foot-raced with us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For decades, civil rights leaders have been saying things like “we all want a colorblind society, we just disagree how to get there” in defense of race-conscious programs like affirmative action or racial data collection. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1961, meanwhile, students meeting at a conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, agreed to form a new civil rights group. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gievers developed a list of the individuals most responsible and filed a federal civil rights suit against them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He challenged the racial bias of these actions and the abuse of his civil rights. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter, Jake Phelps, was, in fact, a longtime advocate of civil rights, though he tried to hide his sympathies from the paper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Lincoln Memorial concert made both musical and civil rights history. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The case was closely watched by criminal lawyers and civil rights lawyers nationwide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a victory for the civil rights movement, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that states cannot use trespass laws against individuals protesting state-mandated segregation policies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she was talking about civil rights or protesting a war or something. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At the same time, however, many of the new civil rights laws were proving largely symbolic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some 4,000 defiant protesters clustered on the lawn and in the parking lot that afternoon in the largest demonstration of the civil rights era in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Various civil rights groups, including the NAACP, immediately began working for their release and succeeded in having them all set free by the middle of January 1925. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He’d promised to finish a book he was writing and needed to get away from the daily, ongoing demands of leadership in the civil rights movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Days before the second college semester began, we met the civil rights’ activist Harry Belafonte, who was motivated to meet us after seeing the Freedom Writers on television. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I did not attend these meetings, which dragged on for both the remaining negligence case against the state and the civil rights case against the caseworkers in federal court. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, as civil rights advocates converted a grassroots movement into a legal campaign, and as civil rights leaders became political insiders, many civil rights organizations became top-heavy with lawyers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was then that Frederick Douglass, a civil rights leader who had escaped from slavery ten years before, asked to address the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This was the first definitive film stock collection of the life of Malcolm X and it traveled extensively throughout the nation’s university circuit as well as to civil rights and Afro-American nationalist events. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was nothing like my friends’ parents, who were younger, drove new cars, followed the Mets, talked about civil rights, and foot-raced with us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few more stories followed, as well as chapters in two books about children of the civil rights movement. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Once again, federal troops were sent to the South to provide protection for blacks attempting to exercise their civil rights, and the violent reaction of white racists was met with horror in the North. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Change in civil rights organizations, like change in society as a whole, will not come easy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The attention of civil rights advocates has been largely devoted to other issues, such as affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The lesson wasn’t lost on the civil rights workers two decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In early July, Martin Luther King Jr., one of Johnson’s biggest allies in the struggle to end racial discrimination, spoke out against the war while addressing civil rights leaders in Virginia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like many civil rights lawyers, I was inspired to attend law school by the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The backlash to the comments was fierce, leading civil rights groups and even some Democratic members of Congress to call for her resignation. How will survivors of campus sexual assault fare under Trump's new order? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

She remembers watching the civil rights movement explode across the country on her TV as she was growing up. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Aspects covered in the exhibition: slavery, abolition, Civil War, Reconstruction, segregation, the civil rights movement and Black Heritage stamp series. African American history, as seen through letters and stamps 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The exhibition curator, Valerie Mercer, said she hoped that museum-goers learn how, from the 1960s on, “artists participated in their own way in the civil rights and black power movement.” Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Back to the timeline: With the breakdown of the studio star system in the 1960s and the coming of the civil rights era, athlete involvement in films began to change. When Athletes Go Hollywood 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Gray is a lawyer’s lawyer, still practicing at the age of 91, yet he remains an unsung hero of the modern civil rights struggle. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

The divergence, he argued, dates to the early 1950s, when black civil rights activists, including W.E.B. A new mission for Amnesty International: Bringing human rights home

“What I am struck with is how the museum tells the story of the long civil rights struggle, which didn’t start this summer, and provides that context.” Kevin Young, Poet and Author, Is Named to Lead African American Museum 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

The trail offers a timeline of significant dates in the civil rights movement. New U.S. Civil Rights Trail leads to a little-known Virginia museum 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The protesters in Allen Park showed up in response to a call from a coalition of Christian, Muslim and civil rights groups and are chanting "God Bless America and shame on Lowe's." Lowe's pulls ads from Muslim show, sparks protest 2011-12-17T19:46:03Z

“The Imperfect Plaintiffs” tells the stories of two cases that had the potential to change civil rights in the United States. 11 Perfect Podcasts for the Fourth of July 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

But Halberstam would be the pioneer on one of the most important stories of the era, the story of the civil rights movement. The greatest reporter of our time, and why we should never forget him 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

One of them, Cathy Russell, said she took pride in getting arrested for standing up for her civil rights and making sure her voice was heard. Protesters released after Grant Park arrests 2011-10-16T16:19:00Z

That captures the punchiness of this film, in which Boseman stars as the civil rights lawyer who became the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Marshall’ and ‘Magic Mike’ 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

"The Butler," which opens Friday, documents the civil rights movement through the story of a butler who served in the White House for seven presidents. Oprah 'sorry' for Switzerland's flap 2013-08-13T14:14:45Z

My guess is he sometimes felt the same about the salvational spirit of the early civil rights movement. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

They trafficked in social and political issues, like civil rights, but they didn’t appeal to the Catskill guests and comedians who steered clear of off-color jokes. Movie Review: ‘When Comedy Went to School’ Travels to the Borscht Belt 2013-07-31T01:17:35Z

The civil rights movement reoriented American law through landmark Supreme Court decisions such as Brown v. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Section 504, as the documentary explains, was one of the first U.S. federal civil rights laws to offer protection to people with disabilities. Netflix's "Crip Camp" delivers a message of radicalism and compassion that we all need right now 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

For Evelyn, too: She is still angry about the recent civil rights boycott that prevented her from buying the Easter dress she wanted. Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Arne Duncan, U.S. secretary of education, called a new civil rights study examining inequities in public school funding, discipline, teacher quality and college preparedness a "historic release of data." Study: Discipline harsher on African-American students in Chicago 2012-03-06T06:11:00Z

On and off the trail, history museums, attractions and destinations around the country are emphasizing the civil rights story in an era of renewed activism around race and equality. Learning About the Civil Rights Era Through Travel 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The source added that the New York subpoena is part of an investigation into whether executives at the company violated state civil rights or New York City human rights laws. New York opens sexual harassment probe of Weinstein Co: source 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

What had changed so drastically since the civil rights era that a major arm of the black church now saw Zion as a financial realm? My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

By the time these films opened, the civil rights movement was effectively over. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z

"Stirring the Waters Across America," his theatrical concert production connecting the civil rights movement with current events, is touring nationally this year. His quest: To create music that challenges us to be ‘our better selves’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

America memorializes the civil rights movement’s modern era in sepia-toned images. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Somewhat surprisingly, the civil rights film Selma, which stars British actor David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., failed to receive a single nomination. "Grand Budapest Hotel" Leads The 2015 BAFTA Nominations 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The archive includes a cue card for a statement he read on the last night, responding to viewers who complained that he didn’t present “the other side” on civil rights and Vietnam. Six Decades After the Banana Boat, Harry Belafonte’s Archive Sails Home 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

But as the civil rights movement gained headway in America, Rudolf Bing, the Met’s general manager, realized that the company had to respond. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The Tate exhibition speaks to inclusiveness rather than an exclusive way of addressing the civil rights movement. A Tate Modern Show Examines Race in the U.S. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Johnson had been a champion of civil rights, but a national study of race relations found that blacks and whites were “moving toward two societies . . . separate and unequal.” In 1968, protests were a call for peace and for violence 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

The contributions of black soldiers have long been under-represented, but their minor roles in films of the Vietnam War — the first conflict after the civil rights revolution of the 1950s — is especially egregious. What makes an American a patriot? Spike Lee has some answers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Today, the 76-year-old congressman and civil rights activist won yet another prize for his graphic memoir, “March: Book Three”: the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. Rep. John Lewis: I hope my book inspires people to ‘speak up and speak out’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Other featured inns were initially artists’ colonies whose natural beauty attracted the likes of Ansel Adams, or once attracted intellectuals and early civil rights activists. When the hotel is the destination 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

And back in the United States, his experience of the growing black civil rights movement — and a brush with the House Un-American Activities Committee — reconfirmed the impulse to keep his work political. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Najee Ali, director of the Los Angeles civil rights organisation Project Islamic Hope, said the toys are "a slap in the face of our ancestors" and is calling for their removal from sale. Django Unchained action figures outrage US black activists 2013-01-09T12:08:59Z

After Robinson hung up his cleats in 1957, he stayed true to his word, becoming a constant presence on picket lines and at civil rights rallies. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

The undercurrent of anxiety, of cheerful malice if not threat, seems to say something about the realities of Southern life before the civil rights movement. Art Review: Bill Traylor Finally Gets a Spotlight in New York 2013-07-04T23:46:01Z

The pair spent weeks preparing — scouring newspapers for dispatches from the outside world, gabbing about Vietnam and civil rights with other students at a rib joint named Booby’s, and organizing research at the Rodhams’ house. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Michaels, a feminist and civil rights campaigner, who worked mostly as a writer, editor and publicist, began what she would later describe as a “timid eight-year crusade”. Sheila Michaels, who brought 'Ms' into mainstream, dies at 78 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Guy was a passionate participant in midcentury black nationalist organizations, and in more traditional civil rights groups. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z

Comics also reflected the tumult and social revolution of America during the 1960s, with stories about the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. DC Comics superhero: “All Star Batman” author Scott Snyder on politics, diversity and comics in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Newer exhibitions include one on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement and “First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Pets.” Is the cash-strapped Newseum facing a final deadline? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

In many ways, the story of civil rights in America is the story of the Ellison family: over the course of four generations, they have reached heights that Keith’s grandfather could only dream of. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Franklin, was respected as a civil rights leader, an early advocate of “black pride” and a friend of King. 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies aged 76: AP 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Although he considered himself a liberal, Raspberry's moderate, nuanced positions on issues including civil rights and gun control garnered criticism from both the right and the left. Pulitzer-winning columnist William Raspberry dies 2012-07-17T17:24:13Z

David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor who supervised the criminal civil rights section of Miami’s U.S. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder orders federal autopsy of Michael Brown 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

As funny as the story is, however, it also packs a punch since it deals with a sickening part of America's civil rights history: the horrific bombing of a black church leaving four girls dead. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z

The casting of high-profile civil rights veterans in a story about racial acrimony and injustice can be read as a critique of — or lament about — the promises and disappointments of an earlier activist era. Why ‘Do the Right Thing’ Is Still a Great Movie 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Failure to do so maintains them in a state of perpetual childhood, and deprives them and their descendants of their civil rights to their heritage and ancestry. Carolyn Hax: Learn to take inventory each time you find yourself yelling 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Ms. Franklin, for all the commercial glitter of her long and distinguished career, remains a symbol of the American civil rights movement. Music Review: Aretha Franklin?s Duet With Condoleezza Rice 2010-07-28T21:32:00Z

Greenidge and her sisters developed a reverence for storytelling and history early on, when their parents and grandparents would tell stories about their ancestors and what life was like during the civil rights movement. Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

It also means that the strongest civil rights advocates in the South are committed to working within the system. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

Joining those films in the race for best movie was civil rights drama "The Help," Woody Allen's whimsical "Midnight in Paris," Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" and 9/11 movie "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close." Hollywood embraces hopeful tales with Oscar nominations 2012-01-25T00:01:11Z

A soulful civil rights anthem and an electro-pop sugar rush are two of the tracks up for music awards at this year's Oscars. Oscar nominations 2015: Common, John Legend, Tegan and Sara lead field 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

R&B bands were essential to the civil rights movement. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

How aware were you of civil rights in the United States? Ruth Negga on the Quiet American and Other Acting Challenges 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The jeering not only shattered etiquette but also challenged civil rights; the scandal quickly went national, with widespread backing for the actors. Turn off your phone. And ignore the prostitute. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

You were involved with the civil rights movement and with feminism, the latter especially when you moved to New York and worked with Gloria Steinem on Ms Magazine in the 1970s. Alice Walker: 'I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity' 2013-03-09T17:00:01Z

Young people were at the heart of what many see to be a pivotal moment in American civil rights, says de Schweinitz. How to Spark Kids' Interest in Civil Rights 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Black businesses suffered after civil rights laws forced white-owned businesses to accept black customers. Highways Through Hell 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

If there was a scholarly trigger for the civil rights movement, this was it. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Plus, she says, coming under the umbrella of a larger firm allows her and Cate more latitude in pursuing their public interest cases: individual civil rights, whistleblower and sexual-orientation matters. Cate Edwards: A steadfast daughter to John Edwards, despite pain and scandal

In “I Will Not Remain Silent,” the violin personifies Prinz’s voice, struggling against an orchestra that represents Nazi Germany in the first movement and civil rights era America in the second. 'I Will Not Remain Silent': Music gives voice to the fight for equality 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

A Department of Justice investigation released in January confirmed that the Chicago Police Department is perpetrating harassment, “unreasonable” killings and systematic civil rights violations against the people of Chicago. Taking humanity hostage: What a brutally violent ICE raid tells us about Trump’s creeping police state 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Last month, a group of educators and civil rights organizations filed suit against Oklahoma’s ban on critical race theory, on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

When civil rights issues gained even more prominence a few years later, academics and intellectuals once again stepped forward to act on behalf of liberal ideals. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z

That's why they argue so loudly for social justice and civil rights - it's to try and hide it, to make you turn your attention elsewhere. Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lovelace O’Neal, raised in Jackson, Miss., joined in civil rights marches and became involved with the Black Arts Movement. A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

Members of Congress, including Barney Frank, a Massachusetts representative at the time known for backing civil rights issues, lobbied the U.S. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

Known to friends as “Trane,” he was an introspective loner, a pioneering composer, a man deeply marked by the civil rights movement and nearly ruined by drugs and alcohol. ‘Walking With ’Trane’: A dance ode to the art of John Coltrane 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The sounds of the civil rights era, in other words, evoke the narrative of Height's life in visceral ways. Honoring civil rights heroine in song 2011-01-31T15:17:00Z

In the movie, the three women never speak directly of civil rights. “Hidden Figures” Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

“The fact is that a lot of these young artists do not understand these civil rights issues, do not understand history and what it is that people are offended by,” he said. Mountain Dew Drops Lil Wayne Over Emmett Till Lyric 2013-05-06T21:47:30Z

After Mecca, Malcolm began reaching out to the civil rights establishment and came to recognize, in Mr. Marable’s words, that “blacks indeed could achieve representation and even power under America’s constitutional system.” Books of The Times: Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks 2011-04-07T13:56:45Z

The organization defines itself as the Latino legal voice for civil rights in America, and Longoria is on its board of directors. Eva Longoria shows passion for acting, activism and philanthropy 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Spring for Music reports that two brothers of the slain civil rights workers will experience the work here for the first time. A Festival Built for Risky Business 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z

The change in the picture’s meaning — from a celebration of gay desire to a defiant assertion of civil rights — reflects a shift in Tillmans’s work. Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Whether or not a mass audience will want to see this more authentic version of the civil rights struggle, which opens Christmas Day, is problematic. 'Selma's' depiction of civil rights years: Less saintly, more swagger 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

A generation ago, Spike Lee took the veteran director Norman Jewison to task for directing “Malcolm X,” insisting that the nuances of the civil rights activist’s story would be better served by a black filmmaker. White filmmakers, black characters and the fear of cultural appropriation 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

She was starting a fellowship with Open Society Foundations, a group dedicated to civil rights, democracy and government accountability. For Two Frequent Fliers, a Trip Down the Matrimonial Runway 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

She eventually covered the presidential bids in 1988 of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and televangelist Pat Robertson, both long-shot candidates for the Democrats and Republicans, respectively. Gwen Ifill, who overcame barriers as a black female journalist, dies at 61 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Although Rep. Ellison possesses a strong record on civil rights, in this case Black Lives Matter activists were correct to charge that Ellison was getting King’s famous letter exactly wrong. MLK was a disruptor: How Black Lives Matter carries on Martin Luther King’s legacy of effective activism 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

And Sharpton said that goes against the message in King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, in which the civil rights leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality. Blogger calls DC dangerous for Glenn Beck rally 2010-08-27T20:15:00Z

But I think there's now a realization that this is truly the next big civil rights movement, that it isn't going to go back anywhere. Tina Brown pulls no punches: "If you're a woman, you have to be gold in a silver job" 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

She was a writer and also a civil rights activist. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Working with jazz composer Robert Glasper to adapt the 1960 record “We Insist! Max Roach’s ‘Freedom Now Suite,’ ” certain themes were inevitable: civil rights, the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

“It was one of the saddest and darkest hours for me in the entire civil rights movement,” Lewis said. Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The network changed the program’s name from Generation KKK to Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America, and civil rights groups were brought on as partners. A&E Is Ditching Plans for Documentary Series on the KKK 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

African-American students comprised three-quarters of school suspensions in 2009-10, the year data was collected for the national civil rights survey. Study: Discipline harsher on African-American students in Chicago 2012-03-06T06:11:00Z

It's perhaps surprising, given the prevalence of aggression in his work, that Furnas was raised by Quaker parents in a Philadelphia commune which grew out of the civil rights movement. Artist of the week 2011-03-10T16:29:20Z

She talked about her dreams of wanting to be a classical pianist being deferred and she talked about politics and civil rights. Director of Nina Simone documentary: “We were in our edit room when the events of Ferguson were unfolding. It reminds you that the struggle is ongoing” 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The rise of the civil rights movement opened up chances for work in the United States, and in the early ’60s he returned and formed William Greaves Productions. William Greaves, Emmy-winning producer and co-host of ‘Black Journal,’ dies at 87

Tanaka was born the same year as pop singer Bing Crosby, baseball legend Lou Gehrig and civil rights leader Ella Baker. World's oldest person turns 119 and hopes to reach her 120th birthday 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

He was a civil rights activist in the 1960s who was radicalized by the 1965 Watts riots but later turned against Black nationalism. Stanley Crouch, contentious man of letters, dead at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Throughout his life, Armstrong remained a genial bandleader, taking groups overseas to spread jazz and goodwill to international audiences — an establishment role that didn't always sit well with black activists during the civil rights era. Dr. John infuses Louis Armstrong tribute album with 'Spirit of Satch' 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Capitol display with statues of civil rights leader Daisy Bates and country musician Johnny Cash. Daisy Bates, Johnny Cash statues headed to US Capitol 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

For the first major film ever to feature King as a lead character, moviegoers get a different civil rights leader than they might be familiar with. In 'Selma,' David Oyelowo digs deep to play Martin Luther King Jr. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Things change when the family moves to Atlanta, the city that “epitomized the emergence of the New South” with its embrace of the civil rights movement. Review | In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

At the time of JFK's assassination, a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats were blocking his legislative agenda, including a tax cut and a civil rights bill. Caro is back, and the obsession goes on 2012-04-30T11:39:10Z

The film documents the life of a politician and civil rights leader who has never lost sight of his purpose even when faced with insurmountable odds. New doc "John Lewis: Good Trouble" gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

That follows recent laws tightening controls on foreign-funded civil rights groups and sharply raising fines for violations of public order at street rallies. Russia's "Pussy Riot" on trial for cathedral protest 2012-07-30T11:20:12Z

That took a lot of guts because, not only did he not make Johnson happy, there were people in the civil rights movement who felt he had lost his way. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Ms. Damon, the founder of Supper Club From Nowhere, a culinary history project inspired by the civil rights chef Georgia Gilmore, cheered Mr. Sin’s request to collaborate. In This Dinner Series, Chinese Food Is at Home Worldwide 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Hemingway told Parker and Oyelowo to imagine they were portraying the famous cleavage in the civil rights movement. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z

Simon gave the example of the racist comedy “Amos ’n’ Andy,” which despite being pulled from syndication during the civil rights movement remains widely available in bootlegs. What Actually Happens When a TV Episode Gets Pulled? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

On April 4, 1968, a single gunshot killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on a motel balcony in Memphis. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The New Economy Movement speaks to this reality, and just possibly, despite all the obstacles—as with the civil rights, feminist, environmental and so many other earlier historic movements—it, too, will overcome. Rise of the New Economy Movement 2012-05-22T12:56:00Z

The Russian state press capitalized on the opportunity with articles on American hypocrisy and newspaper photos from the violent suppression of civil rights protests in the American south. Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the years leading up to the civil rights movement, Juneteenth celebrations became less popular and shifted to being about demanding equality. Juneteenth: An emancipation celebration 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Athletic Achievement Even in the lighter areas of the exhibition, such as the sports displays, the museum draws a connection to civil rights. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

In the popular retelling of the era, many have forgotten that Marshall's triumphs established the foundation for civil rights advocates by placing the imprimatur of the law on their side. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The 2010 documentary “Freedom Riders,” also making its way into the registry, told an inspiring story about civil rights activists who fought against racial segregation on buses and trains in the 1960s. ‘Dark Knight,’ ‘Grease’ added to National Film Registry 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Southern food began to be called soul food during the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s, according to Hurt. Film explores African-Americans' unhealthy "soul food" habit 2012-12-27T17:01:21Z

The society’s other main opening exhibitions include “Freedom Now: Photographs by Platon,” which considers the African-American fight for civil rights through the lens of the British photographer Platon; and ”Revolution! ?Making American Taste? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-10-16T20:57:17Z

“The Fight” chronicles the American Civil Liberties Union battling Trump-era rollbacks in civil rights protections. Perspective | Film festivals face the dreaded choice this year: Go virtual or go dark 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

As Chatelain describes it, those early battles between McDonald’s and civil rights activists mainly revolved around who got served and who got hired. The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

What prompted Shepherd’s conversion and rebirth as a proponent of equality and civil rights? Former KKK leader faces racist past and his 102-year-old African-American caretaker 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

"I was able to ascend to heights because of the foundation that my mother and my father and my grandfather laid through civil rights." Kanye West: Racism holds artists back 2013-09-24T09:36:37Z

Last night, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” invited on activist DeRay McKesson to discuss the current state of the civil rights movement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Stephen Colbert’s radical vulnerability: Talking frankly about race could be a game-changer for his moderate white audience 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Several weeks later, the civil rights activist Robert Moses stepped onstage before a performance by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra to announce that Dr. King had been shot. Robert Caro and Carnegie Hall: Revisiting the ’60s 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

It focuses on Lewis’s activism in the 1950s and ’60s, when he championed nonviolence in the civil rights movement — even as he was brutally, and repeatedly, beaten. The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Her subsequent arrest led to a bus boycott organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a galvanizing event in U.S. civil rights history. Rosa Parks papers to be open to Library of Congress researchers 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

It was up against four highly praised contenders: Cold War spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, slick LA noir Drive, melancholy family drama The Descendants and civil rights issue-flick The Help. Baftas best film: Was The Artist the right choice? 2012-02-13T13:28:00Z

Over the years he lent passionate support to the antiwar movement, to freedom of expression in repressive countries, to environmental causes and civil rights. Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The film, which features archival footage of Kennedy at news conferences, public events and with family, traces the major events of his presidency, from civil rights protests to the Cuban missile crisis. Letters of grief to Jacqueline Kennedy brought to life in film 2013-09-22T18:10:31Z

Protesting the lynching of African Americans, the song helped kick off the civil rights movement. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The route to that future winds backward through time, from even before the earliest days of slavery through the civil rights movement to the modern day. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

With the exception of their Stetson hats and cowboy boots, the 21st-century Rangers are merely an official state police force, tamed by scrutiny, Miranda warnings and civil rights suits. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Samuel G. Freedman is the author of eight books, including “Breaking the Line,” about black college football and the civil rights movement. Race and Class and Youth Football in Brownsville, Brooklyn 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

And complaints of judicial overreach were once most commonly associated with conservatives, many of whom objected to a series of rulings in the 1950s and ’60s that ended segregation and expanded civil rights. The Hosts of ‘5-4’ Never Trusted the Supreme Court 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

“I am just a Black woman who is an artist in 2020 during one of the biggest civil rights fights of a generation.” Ziwe Fumudoh Asks: ‘How Many Black People Do You Know?’ 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

I’ve always wanted to be part of a movement, the civil rights movement, the feminist movement. Jeffrey Tambor calls on industry to hire more trans actors in Emmys speech 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

As civil rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith points out in the programme, this is a world where capital punishment means "them without the capital gets the punishment". American Justice – review 2013-01-16T17:45:18Z

It was the manifesto for the Black Power movement, where young black saviors arose, alienated by white saviors and the slow pace of civil rights change. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Reuther was concerned with civil rights almost as much as with workers’ rights. Before the clouds came in 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

In the early 1960s Miss Horne, always outspoken on the subject of civil rights, became increasingly active, participating in numerous marches and protests. Lena Horne helped integrate Hollywood 2010-05-10T05:06:00Z

With Daniels directing, Jackman will star as William Pepper, the lawyer who has argued for decades that, on 4 April 1968, the US civil rights activist was murdered by unseen forces including the US government. Lee Daniels to direct Hugh Jackman in Martin Luther King film Orders to Kill 2012-08-01T10:47:44Z

He's suing in federal court in Chicago, claiming his civil rights were violated. "Female Forces" lawsuit is next on A&E docket 2010-06-28T03:28:00Z

Throughout this city, which proudly proclaims itself the cradle of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, two different histories coexist, separate and unequal. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Those other movements include everything “from civil rights, women’s rights, education, juvenile defense, gun control, a range of environmental causes, education reform, hunger, global human rights and rehabilitating former inmates,” he says. Freedom to Marry is going out of business. And everybody’s thrilled. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

He was affiliated with the youth group that I grew up in, which was started by veterans of the civil rights movement. The Surprising Origins of #MeToo 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

I appreciate that you touch on Carter's civil rights and human rights efforts. "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President": A loving relationship to music that "cuts through politics" 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The nation was grappling with the civil rights movement, and it was not at all clear that racial integration could be achieved. Dick Gregory, Comedian and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 84 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The civil rights champion, who died Aug. 15, appears in “Rosenwald” and served as “my main consultant and became very dear to me,” Kempner says. The enlightening legacy of the Rosenwald schools 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Without it we would never have had, among other things, the civil rights movement, jazz, Michelle Obama or Baldwin himself. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Engaging in what Marxists call “heightening the contradictions,” Caldwell argues that the oppressive imperialism of civil rights laws is not incidental. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The series launched last month with a conversation between Whoopi Goldberg and civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson about the power of narrative. Film academy to host virtual panels about inclusion, equity 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

In June, the invaluable documentary maker Stanley Nelson continues his career-long exploration of African-American history and culture with “Freedom Summer” on PBS, celebrating the 50th anniversary of a turning point in the civil rights movement. Some Big Names Help Make Summer TV Less Silly 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

In 1956, when Jack and Della are separated and their lives are seemingly destroyed by racism, they are still relatively young, the civil rights movement is beginning, and there is time for them to change. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

For another streaming option, the 2020 documentary “MLK/FBI” examines an F.B.I. director’s unsettling obsession with King’s personal life and political affiliations, and his determination to bring down the civil rights leader. 6 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

“I was first and foremost an activist in the civil rights movement in Mississippi.” Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

But the appearance of a chorus of civil rights protesters signaled that the opera’s true subject was race relations in America. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Films of this stripe are legion, though the most irritating example remains “Mississippi Burning,” in which two F.B.I. agents are at the center of an investigation into the murder of civil rights activists. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

It wasn’t an overnight change, because politics is slow, but it happened: Robert Byrd and even George Wallace changed their positions on black civil rights and apologized. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

The civil rights movement brought the voice of the oppressed into music that reached far beyond the black community. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

It’s the civil rights of our time, and I think I am making a little bit of a contribution, because I’ve seen people change who were homophobic, after seeing this. Lee Daniels on Empire: The Show Has Already Changed Homophobes' Minds 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

It describes his struggles with racial discrimination and his early days as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in Harlem in the 1960s. Austin Clarke, Canadian Author Who Explored Black Experience, Dies at 81 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

A celebratory musical paying tribute to the black music explosion led by Berry Gordy’s Detroit label, “Motown” devotes only a few scenes to the civil rights movement and the tumult of the late 1960s. Review: ‘Motown: The Musical’ Offers Easy Nostalgia and a Jolt of Racial Relevance 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The gallery mixes portraiture, needlepoint and evocative photos from the civil rights movement. There are many ways to design a gallery wall. We’ll get you started. 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

While the downtown institute is best known for its focus on civil rights, Pijeaux said the exhibit fits its overall theme of promoting human rights. Ala. civil rights museum exhibiting lesbian photos 2012-03-29T21:03:12Z

The country was embroiled domestically in the civil rights struggle and internationally in a cold war arms race that seemed to promise an apocalypse, if not right now, then within a few years. DVDs: Samuel Fuller, Eccentric Stylist of Poverty Row 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z

The civil rights movement progressed and white liberal audiences recognized jazz musicians to be some of the country’s great artistic leaders, but they rarely treated those musicians as the scholars and thought-leaders that they were. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

While she worked on the book, Mbue researched the anti-apartheid and American civil rights movements as well as the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and other political and environmental actions. Imbolo Mbue Has Been Working Toward This Moment 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

“He represents a signal moment in civil rights for the United States,” says Burns. Ken Burns zooms in on Jackie Robinson: baseball great and civil rights hero 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

No one should ever suffer discrimination, opprobrium or, most sickening, violence because of their choice, and our laws should protect this freedom as a universal civil right. Letters: Letters From Readers 2010-12-17T23:00:47Z

As her fame grew, so did her social circle and civil rights activism. Review: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ Documents Nina Simone’s Rise as Singer and Activist 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Choreographed on the brink of the civil rights movement in America, “Revelations” was a radical act for its time. What makes Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations' an American dance classic? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was the soundtrack of what he cared about – the world, the nation, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, anti-apartheid, the environment, anti-fracking. ‘Loud, Strong, Committed, and Always in Search of America’ 2014-01-29T23:32:51Z

Since its arrival in theaters last month, the civil rights drama "Selma" has earned critical praise and predictions of Oscar glory. Oscars 2015: Diversity is the biggest nomination snub 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“No one had even done an inventory of civil rights landmarks,” he said. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

They reminisced about Mr. Seeger’s last days and last moments, surrounded by music, and about the causes he rallied through the decades with determinedly optimistic songs: civil rights, unions, antiwar movements, environmentalism. Musicians Join in a Seeger Tribute at Lincoln Center 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The trial is credited with mobilizing the civil rights movement and drawing attention to racial injustice and violence in the American South. PepsiCo drops rapper Lil Wayne over controversial lyric 2013-05-03T23:42:14Z

Her audience are informed and interested in civil rights so “virtually no one will sit down”, Crenshaw says approvingly. #SayHerName: why Kimberlé Crenshaw is fighting for forgotten women 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

A prominent civil rights institution decided to honor Angela Davis, and Birmingham’s well-heeled prepared to celebrate in the town where the seeds of her legendary activism were first sown. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

A chairman of American Motors who became governor of Michigan, the elder Romney was an idealistic moderate, walking out of the 1964 Republican National Convention over the party’s foot-dragging on civil rights. Books of The Times: ?The Real Romney,? by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman ? Review 2012-01-16T20:12:57Z

Mr. Romanoff started his career working at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and later led an undercover investigation on employment discrimination for a state civil rights agency. How Reparations for Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Dray himself says that while his earlier books on civil rights history were guided by a confidence in racial progress, this time he doesn’t feel so sure. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, it was stalled on Congress at the time of President Kennedy's assassination, in November 1963. Book planned in 2014 about 1964 Civil Rights Act 2011-12-12T02:43:08Z

America’s police continue as enforcers of the color line in the post civil rights era and the Age of Obama. What Obama’s Dallas speech missed: Police brutality is rooted in race-based housing segregation and economic inequality 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The march pressured the federal government to move forward on historic civil rights bills. Protests have long been a powerful way to bring about change 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

He pointed to an episode five years ago in which a white artist was pilloried for painting the Black civil rights martyr Emmett Till’s corpse. A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

When they ask for everything, it is not for specific snooping or violations of civil rights, but rather a data base that is being maintained as an investigative tool. Binge-Watching Picks for Edward Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

As you may recall, advocates for racial equality were harshly criticized during the civil rights movement of the 1960s for sit-ins and lawsuits. Did a lesbian couple bully Christian innkeepers over the right to marry on their farm? 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

What can today’s resisters learn from King and the civil rights movement? Lessons in resistance from MLK, the “conservative militant” 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Brilliantly edited, “I Am Not Your Negro” moves across time and space, seamlessly — insistently — sliding from the historical civil rights movement to more recent events, including Ferguson. Time Traveling at the Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Throughout, the conventional line-up of individual objects is interrupted by tight groupings of items that offer context, often with explicit political or social agendas, from labour rights to civil rights. Don’t be aloof 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Later, in the 1960s, the artist joined Look magazine and depicted civil rights and poverty. Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Abolitionists and civil rights speakers again and again drew upon the Declaration. Declaration of Independence still inspires activists 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

It was both a personal and political statement, punctuated by “We are Alive,” which linked the civil rights, labor and immigrant movements across the centuries to the present-day struggles of society’s voiceless.   Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z

“They old, and they from civil rights. They just now getting computers.” In a Stand-Up Act, Leslie Jones Finds the Humor in Being Hacked 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

She is typically revered as a selfless individual who, with one spontaneous act of courage, triggered the bus boycott and became, as she is often called, “the mother of the civil rights movement.” The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Students from Rockingham make the two-hour journey to Farmville every April for the “unique opportunity to experience Virginia’s civil rights history within the actual walls where these pivotal events unfolded,” Dickerson said. New U.S. Civil Rights Trail leads to a little-known Virginia museum 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

During this time, the young lawyer formed his guiding philosophy — satyagraha, an untranslatable portmanteau that roughly means “truth force” — and fought for the civil rights of Indians. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

On Monday, she said she was unable to personally accept an award honoring her work with civil rights from Major League Baseball on Saturday in Chicago. Aretha Franklin says she's 85 percent healed 2013-08-20T20:05:12Z

In the past, she had her own domestic ritual to support civil rights activists – and it’s one she’s replicating now. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

They were to become the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement – a movement that changed the face of our nation and inspired millions of repressed people across the globe. African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The pair talk about racism, the civil rights movement and the way baseball fans took umbrage when a Black player caught up with the stats established by a white player in the past. ‘Reggie’ Review: Reggie Jackson on Himself, Racism and, Yes, Baseball 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

He said the ceremony was an opportunity to make a stand for gay and trans civil rights worldwide and no censorship of the telecast will be tolerated. Kim Petras promises powerful EMAs performance in Hungary 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

It is terribly important to keep alive information about what life was like in America before the victories of the civil rights movement so that we always remember how tenuous Freedom and Equality can be. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Like many other civil rights activists, he was called a Communist — a label whose loose rhetorical function is echoed in the word “terrorist” today. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

And just as journalists made a difference in the civil rights battles of the ’60s, and the struggle for gay rights more recently, they can — and should — do so again. The media dug deep on Brock Turner and Bill Cosby. What about Woody Allen? 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Abbey Lincoln, who died in 2010, was a groundbreaking jazz vocalist, actress and activist whose music fearlessly explored issues like feminism and civil rights. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Wasn’t the safety of black law-abiding citizens a basic civil right? ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

To his everlasting credit, Gordon Davidson brought the civil rights movement into the American theater by inviting artists of color to work with his company, thus professionally integrating one of the nation’s major regional stages. 'Zoot Suit' writer Luis Valdez: How Gordon Davidson changed my life, and American theater, forever 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

And for a show concerned with the artist’s social commitments, it treads rather gingerly over her support for the American civil rights movement. Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Despite a personal and aesthetic style that reveled in his blackness, Hendrix never spoke out on the pressing civil rights issues of the day either in his lyrics or in interviews. Music: Beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience 2010-02-27T03:40:00Z

Her father was a horse trainer; her mother a maid and factory worker, as well as a civil rights campaigner fighting for welfare reform. Viola Davis: 'I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years' 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

Women's rights and civil rights are inextricably linked, she says, but women have become complacent in the last 20 years. Once preposterous, now immediate; Margaret Atwood on 'Handmaid's Tale' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

She is the daughter of Molly Lusk and Arthur A. Benson II of Kansas City, Mo. The bride’s father is a civil rights lawyer in private practice in Kansas City. Emily Benson, Douglas Miller Jr. 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

As a Brooklyn public school teacher, he used Robinson’s story to teach his students about civil rights, even hosting Robinson’s daughter Sharon as a speaker at the school. A Guide to Exploring Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn 2013-04-11T14:31:54Z

Interviewed for the film, Belafonte credits Sullivan with helping to shift American culture and prepare the nation for the coming civil rights movement by exposing his viewers to a broad range of black artists. A starlet of the civil rights era, Diahann Carroll looks back on a career of firsts 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

This first major biography of the great tennis champion, written by a civil rights historian, shows that Ashe’s activism was as important as his athletic skill. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The 87-year-old was a prominent civil rights campaigner and friend of Martin Luther King Jr, who he helped financially support during his fight against segregation. Belafonte handed honorary Oscar 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a “superb history of mobility and resistance,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes, in which “the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“Non-Blacks can support civil rights,” he said, by way of comparison. Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

The weight and shame and triumph of history are the very oxygen of “Little Rock,” Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s viscerally affecting play about an especially ugly chapter in the battle for civil rights. Review: 9 Brave Students and the Shame of ‘Little Rock’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

All four officers are also charged with violating Floyd’s civil rights. Teen who recorded Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer nod 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

They met in 1962 at Merritt College in Oakland, and began strategizing about revolutionary action to address racial injustice — reading Mao and Marx, refining the philosophies of previous civil rights activists. Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Shortly after ending my affair with libertarianism at the friends-with-benefits stage before it became more serious, I had the first of many exhilarating conversations with civil rights hero and legendary crusader for justice, Jesse Jackson. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Compared to civil rights museums and Civil War battlefields, there are few places to get that living history,” he said. Weeksville Black History Site Hobbled by Dip in Donations 2013-12-20T23:11:21Z

The season will feature the world premiere of Matthew Rushing’s “Odetta,” set to music written by the folk singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, who died in 2008. Ailey American Dance Theater to Offer Odetta Tribute 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

About civil rights, Mr. Thomas plays apologist for Eisenhower’s failure to be more outspoken. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z

But just before the tour, Cable delivered an incendiary speech calling for integrated public spaces and civil rights for blacks. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

African-American women were central to the civil rights movement, but seldom get their due. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The co-creator of the Black Lives Matter movement shares the lessons she’s learned — about activism and civil rights — the hard way. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Jack Kerouac to Black Lives Matter 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

This season began with the toppling of a founding partner and civil rights leader in a #MeToo scenario. Cush Jumbo Still Has Hope. And You Should, Too. 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

In civil rights, in consumer rights, in criminal procedure, long-established protections are falling away and barriers are going up. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

“It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” he said. Cover Story: “The Dream of Reconciliation” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

“Clearly, the ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ was the most important written document of the civil rights era,” the scholar S. Jonathan Bass wrote in 2001. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

If you believe “We Are Alive,” then striking 1877 Maryland railroad workers rest alongside Birmingham civil rights agitators and also next to Mexican border crossers. Music: Pareles and Caramanica on Springsteen?s ?Wrecking Ball? 2012-03-02T21:32:35Z

She lists the restaurants where important players in the civil rights movement liked to eat big. Books of The Times: What Africa Brought to the Table 2011-01-24T18:22:55Z

One deals in big things, the epochal achievements of the civil rights movement, which is often said to have begun with Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

And in the end, Carter was freed after 19 years in prison; a federal judge found that the conviction was tainted by racial bias and that Carter and his co-defendant were denied their civil rights. Academics to dissect Bob Dylan at NY conference 2011-04-02T16:24:07Z

I think it was interesting because Afeni obviously was in the forefront of the civil rights movement. "Don't bite your tongue for no one": Tupac's mom, Afeni Shakur, taught him how to rebel and prevail 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

“We Shall Overcome,” which Mr. Seeger adapted from old spirituals, became a civil rights anthem. Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z

Simone’s story is inextricably intertwined with the story of race in America, and Garbus’ holistic portrayal of the artist provides a vivid and evocative parallel to the civil rights era of the mid-20th century. Director of Nina Simone documentary: “We were in our edit room when the events of Ferguson were unfolding. It reminds you that the struggle is ongoing” 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

It also serves as a reminder that, for all the increase in transgender visibility, life on the ground for many transgender people hasn’t necessarily changed much — particularly in a time of civil rights rollbacks. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

August 12, 2009, Holder notified members of Congress of his unwillingness to open a civil rights investigation on Smith. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

His political life tracked the divergent paths of the modern black political struggle in the United States: He worked with mainstream civil rights activists like Dr. King; and helped start the Black Panther Party. Peniel E. Joseph on His Biography of Stokely Carmichael 2014-03-03T21:52:52Z

“We are the last civil rights movement of our time. Everything else has sort of been addressed,” said Jenni Gold, a wheelchair-using director who made “CinemAbility,” a documentary about disability in Hollywood. Disabled actors say they’re the ‘last civil rights movement’ in Hollywood. Hardly anyone’s discussing it. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Black liberation struggle represented alongside landmarks to the nonviolent civil rights movement. Fred Hampton childhood home gets historical landmark status 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

“This is the dawn of the civil rights movement, and what the African American community wanted to see was uplifting images of African Americans,” she says. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

“In the 87 years between the end of Reconstruction and 1964,” Jentleson writes, “the only bills that were stopped by filibusters were civil rights bills.” As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Black Codes, convict leasing and Jim Crow segregation followed Emancipation; overpolicing and mass incarceration followed the civil rights movement. Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

He implied that they were insincere with respect to protecting the civil rights of African Americans. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

After a week visiting the historic sites of civil rights, I planned to spend the morning of Easter Sunday in Atlanta under Dollar’s dome. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

Conflicting audience responses to this theme pointed up the decade’s struggle with civil rights. Review | Even James Dean’s crude antics and untimely death couldn’t stop ‘Giant’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Suddenly Ms. Conrad was thrust into the drama of the larger struggle for civil rights. With a Voice and a Spirit, Triumphing Over Racism 2011-02-07T23:23:33Z

That drove Congress to establish civil rights and redefine citizenship. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

An artist rethinks an iconic civil rights flag. Roundup: Dallas urbanism and the shootings, a graffitist apologizes, essays on gentrification 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

It was the principle of democracy he was fighting for, for justice and civil rights and all those things. Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Their achievements, though modest, are a reminder that the civil rights triumphs of the 1950s and ’60s followed decades of lonely struggle by a dedicated cadre that included Southern women of both races. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

And out of liberalism grew a post-war emphasis on civil rights. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“My parents left the promised land to jump into the lion’s den,” she said of their move from Chicago to Memphis to join the civil rights movement. Mining Memories to Preserve the Past 2011-02-22T00:00:04Z

The university makes for a microcosmic representation of a broader world in which the voices of young women struggling for their civil rights were silenced or, worse yet, met with violence. Review | Long unsolved, a Harvard murder case gets a fresh look in ‘We Keep the Dead Close’ 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Vietnam war and the civil rights movement had politicised the American public, Martin Luther King had been assassinated, pop and rock music were dominant, and saccharine-sweet family productions had lost their appeal. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

This year’s answer to “The Blind Side” may be the “The Help,” Tate Taylor’s adaptation of the best-selling novel about women’s work and civil rights in 1960s Mississippi. The Carpetbagger: In Film, So Many Men on the Verge of a Crisis 2011-11-30T23:33:02Z

Valeo did not say money equals speech, and no, LBJ did not almost single-handedly get us a civil rights bill as portrayed in the Broadway play “All the Way,’’ with Bryan Cranston. Elizabeth Drew’s Washington

Just before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for example, Vice President Pence claimed that the civil rights leader’s “promise of democracy” speech was, in effect, an endorsement of the Trump wall. Perspective | How to use history to support just about any lunatic assertion 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The Kennedy brothers were on both sides of civil rights, so to speak. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

In the audio guide accompanying the show, the curator Erin Barnett says that the Lovings “were not civil rights activists,” though “they became civil rights heroes.” Art Review: ?The Loving Story? at International Center of Photography 2012-01-26T23:30:12Z

In them, the main character du jour is usually surrounded by Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or any civil rights activist. These Images Tell the Stories of American Blackness 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

We can understand the traditional Southern antipathy to education, progress, public investment, unionization, equal opportunity, and civil rights. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z

But by the late 1950s, television was poised to become the prime mainstream vehicle for the civil rights story. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z

With the press watching, he boxes George Wallace, the white supremacist governor of Alabama, into a corner, forcing him to express support for a plan to protect the civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery. Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ Another Presidential Nightmare 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

He covered civil rights protests and, like many in his generation, was moved by talk of black pride and was eager to find ways to improve life for young blacks. Don Cornelius, Host of ?Soul Train,? and His Muted Legacy 2012-03-09T23:44:45Z

The programs, announced on Thursday, were inspired by the 150th anniversary last year of the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as by civil rights movements in South Africa and the United States. ArtsBeat: New Kyle Abraham Works Inspired by Fights for Freedom 2014-03-20T16:03:21Z

Yes, Lepore pays heed to Frederick Douglass and Cesar Chavez and the African-American lawyer and civil rights activist Pauli Murray, among others. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Reece said Pride's rise to fame during the civil rights movement of the 1960s is among many interesting threads to his story. Items from Charley Pride's life set for museum 2012-10-02T20:38:11Z

As Black History Month draws to a close, we asked several cultural figures to reflect on its continued importance — especially in this moment of divisiveness over race, politics and civil rights. Black History Month: Pressing Forward on the Heels of Progress 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

A good deal of the Republican electorate, who had traditionally championed civil rights and civil liberties, also refused to support him. Hillary’s atrocious race record: Her stances over decades have been painful and wrong 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

What King needed to keep the civil rights movement going was money. Perspective | Harry Belafonte’s biggest hit? The song of freedom. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

This was at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance - a cultural, social, and artistic explosion amongst the African-American middle class, which had strong links to the civil rights movement. Harlem's Apollo Theater turns 80 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Selma” is a rare mainstream film that tells the story of the struggle for black civil rights without inserting some kind of white, heroic savior. “Selma’s” snub, Amazon’s “Point of Honor” and Hollywood’s white savior problem 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

When civil rights icon John Lewis guest-starred to talk about racism and civil rights, he was a bear. "Arthur" creator on iconic cartoon's 25-year legacy and those "legendary" memes 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Half of the newly built Museum of Mississippi History, this was the first civil rights museum anywhere to be sponsored by a state government. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

What are your thoughts on how the documentary dealt with how Rogers' show treated issues of race and civil rights? New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

A study of the artist and civil rights advocate’s life, career and legacy, the film has the advantage of her speaking as well as singing voice. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Some may object to such a broad definition of what constitutes a civil rights movement. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

In 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition of his lifelong fight for civil rights and other causes. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

He had no illusion about Kennedy’s instincts, which were viewed initially by the skeptical civil rights community as authoritarian, pragmatic, and not especially sympathetic. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

But these stories spotlight the contradiction between the Rev. Archibald’s caution about publicly supporting civil rights and the lesson he privately imparted to his children: “Life’s great memories were the ones with the greatest risk.” Review | In ‘Shaking the Gates of Hell,’ a preacher’s son examines his church’s culture of silence on civil rights 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Video: ‘Soul Train’ Performances and Interviews But for the most part Mr. Cornelius didn’t preach about civil rights or the marvels of African-American art. An Appraisal: Don Cornelius, Smooth Operator on Behalf of Soul 2012-02-01T22:59:47Z

And Sharpton said that goes against the message in King's speech, in which the civil rights leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality. Glenn Beck calls for thousands at DC rally 2010-08-28T11:55:00Z

“There was nascent civil rights activity in the 1930s, but if everyone is watching this movie or reading this book, they get the idea that that’s how things were,” Cox said. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

In a city divided along racial and ethnic lines, at a time when the civil rights revolution was just beginning, that made both the teachers and their pupils an exception to the unwritten rules. ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z

Gregory was at the front lines of the civil rights movement. Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist, died Saturday at 84 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Pointing out the U.A.W. and civil rights leaders in attendance, he recalled, “She said, ‘Your story, the family story, is right here.’ ” ‘Brothers on the Line,’ Sasha Reuther’s Film on the U.A.W. 2012-10-09T22:34:03Z

GC As far as I’m concerned, this is the last great frontier in civil rights. Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy on the Weight of Mental Illness 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Missouri and Kansas lay claim to at least two landmark civil rights cases — Dred Scott v. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Even as the movement achieved its greatest triumphs, however, it faced a crisis as urban uprisings, beginning in Harlem in 1964, drew attention to the economic inequality civil rights legislation could not cure. Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

I missed the civil rights movement, but at the third March on Washington Film Festival, I was transfixed. Lonnae O’Neal: I wish everyone could see history the way my son and I did 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Belafonte with Lena Horne in 1970 at an event in support of the civil rights activist Andrew Young’s campaign for Congress. Harry Belafonte: A Life in Photos 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Those fatal shots started a landmark four-year civil rights fight which, by its end, exposed Chicago politics and became the basis of the new documentary 16 Shots. 16 Shots: behind a shocking film about an unlawful police shooting 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

We had probably a good decade, maybe a decade and a half, of active civil rights reforms. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The highlight of the performance was “Revelations,” Ailey’s masterpiece, created in 1960 at the cusp of the civil rights movement. Alvin Ailey’s Robert Battle on His First Real Dance Shoes 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

David Dresden was one of America’s premier civil rights lawyers. Better than his best ‘Law & Order’ episode: Peter Blauner’s new thriller, ‘Proving Ground’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

A civil rights activist, she was the only woman to speak at the 1963 March on Washington before Martin Luther King’s famed “I Have a Dream” speech. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Atticus, perhaps, was not the only genteel white liberal pushed in an unexpected direction during those transformative times, which would open the door to the even more divisive civil rights era. The Atticus Finch of your childhood is’t ruined: Read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” for the early draft that it is 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Adding new lyrics, they sought to harness the old tunes for causes like the labor movement, civil rights and anti-fascism. Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Moreover, Obama has grown up, sometimes to his frustration, after the civil rights movement. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

The New York attorney general has opened a civil rights investigation into the Weinstein Company following dozens of sexual misconduct allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein Company under investigation by New York attorney general 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

During her childhood in 1950s Virginia, Faust — a historian and former president of Harvard — became deeply attenuated to racism and sexism, spurring a lifelong passion for civil rights. 14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Angelou was also a prominent civil rights activist and a friend to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Maya Angelou was a 'real original' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

For instance, they tell the shocking story of Harry T Moore, a civil rights activist from Florida who was murdered in 1951, before singing a tribute entitled Freedom Never Dies. Sweet Honey in the Rock – review 2013-03-25T18:33:35Z

She said she did not need to prove her commitment to civil rights. Gladys Knight defends decision to sing U.S. anthem at Super Bowl 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Set in Mississippi in 1964, “Revolution” blends a fictional coming-of-age story with historical documents from the civil rights era, including leaflets, brochures and newspaper clippings. Shortlists for National Book Awards Announced 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The survey of 72,000 schools is part of a sweeping collection of civil rights data to examine inequities in public schooling in the areas of discipline, school funding, teacher quality and college preparedness. Study: Discipline harsher on African-American students in Chicago 2012-03-06T06:11:00Z

Ariella Barker, who was born with spinal muscular atrophy, says people often assume that disability civil rights laws provide an advantage they do not. Disability Pride: The High Expectations of a New Generation 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

But Harlan turned out to be a stalwart proponent of civil rights. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Christopher P. Moore, a senior researcher at the Schomburg, describes it rather as a “visual continuation of the civil rights movement.” ‘Funky Turns 40’ Show Recalls a Seminal TV Moment 2014-03-19T17:25:11Z

The 29-year-old plays the actress in a political thriller detailing how the FBI targeted Seberg in the late 1960s because of her personal and political links to African American civil rights activist Hakim Jamal. More than a haircut: Kristen Stewart aims to shine spotlight on... 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Our popular reimagining of the civil rights movement is that it’s something we all did together and the battle is over; that’s just not true.” Here Are Some Possible Reasons Why 'Selma' Keeps Getting Snubbed 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

It reveals people who worked behind the scenes to provide the means for abolition, civil rights and racial equality. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: America’s First Black Millionaires 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Virginia, which struck down anti-miscegenation laws across the country, enshrining a landmark victory for the civil rights movement. Premiere: Watch the Trailer for Civil Rights Drama 'Loving' 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

I've looked at and studying a lot of American history in terms of civil rights movement. “No Passport Required,” host Marcus Samuelsson takes our conversation about food to the next... 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The juxtaposition of music and politics — the retelling of a familiar story from the civil rights era in a slightly new key — sheds light on both the music and the movement. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The only national fraternity that would back the nerds were the Tri-Lambs, a black fraternity, and the movie clumsily, but earnestly, links the assertion of nerd rights to the larger idea of civil rights. “Revenge of the Nerds” Enters the Brett Kavanaugh Culture War 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Last month also brought the release of a film dealing directly with the civil rights struggle: "The Help." Hollywood's summer of revolution 2011-09-14T18:01:00Z

Maharaj envisions Martin's death as a bridge between Black Lives Matter and the civil rights movement. A new play opening in Philadelphia is exploring the final moments of the life of Trayvon Martin 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The music reflects civil rights, women’s rights and anticolonial movements, and illustrates the interconnectedness of these revolutions. Barbara Dane’s Life of Defiance and Song 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Barry captures this unfolding life, punctuated by the wider events of history – the second world war, the civil rights movement, Vietnam – with a vivid lyricism. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-08-11T11:15:01Z

“The current tensions surrounding civil rights around the world are reminiscent of past conditions.” Commerce Meets Culture at Art Basel 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Divorced and raising her children alone, Caroline is idolized by her employers’ newly motherless son, while her own fiery daughter joins the fight for civil rights. Broadway Is Back! A Guide to Shows, Tickets and Covid Protocols. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

As a 39-year-old United States attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Sessions prosecuted three black civil rights advocates over what he perceived as voting fraud. Learning from grief, learning from rage — progressive survival under Donald Trump will require both 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

Fifty years ago, the rhetoric of pro–civil rights, Great Society liberals was, in its dominant voices, expressly group transcending, framed in the language of national unity and equal opportunity. How America's identity politics went from inclusion to division 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

There are civil rights champions and abolitionists like Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe, alongside slave-owning presidents such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Trump's unhinged, tone-deaf list of "American heroes" is a fitting emblem of his presidency 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The loss of civil rights icon and former South African president Nelson Mandela still weighs heavily on the minds and hearts of millions across the world after his death at 95 on Thursday. Must-see morning clip: “60 Minutes” remembers Nelson Mandela 2013-12-09T14:30:00Z

But as the state’s white establishment felt itself increasingly under siege with the federal government and courts advancing civil rights, the commission became considerably less innocuous. Television Review: ‘Spies of Mississippi,’ About Segregation’s Defenders 2014-02-09T21:31:13Z

Ostwald has long championed Armstrong as a pioneer of civil rights, making the case in a 1991 New York Times guest essay that Armstrong, as early as 1929, actually did address race in his music. Louis Armstrong’s Last Laugh 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

When Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play for a professional baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, it was a seminal moment in the history of the civil rights movement. Both Super Bowl LIV team names are pretty racist — Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Another major project was his “Ten Freedom Summers,” an ambitious, four-hour-plus suite that traces the civil rights movement over a long timeline, including sonic evocations of the Dred Scott case and the Jim Crow era. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Williamson’s argument seems to be that Republicans couldn’t have taken advantage of a Democratic split over civil rights by appealing to racist white Southern voters because Republicans were too uniformly pro-civil rights, themselves. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

I’ve turned them down because my heart is with these civil rights cases. TV Series Tries to Revive Civil Rights Cold Cases 2011-02-15T23:00:15Z

We should teach rituals and customs and the positive and negative aspects of religious history—the role of the churches in the civil rights movement and the Inquisition. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z

“Much of the activism of the Vietnam and civil rights era would be completely illegal” under the new laws. Perspective | The civil rights and Vietnam protests changed America. Today, they might be illegal. 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

And also, to some degree, Ken Burns’s television series “Jazz,” with its subplots about the music’s slow move toward public respectability and its importance in the history of civil rights. Books of The Times: ?Blue Notes in Black and White? by Benjamin Cawthra - Review 2011-12-15T22:54:43Z

Ms. Miranda also admires Simone as a fearless voice of civil rights, and draws an admittedly rough parallel between that movement and the drive for equal rights for gays. Music: Up From the Underground, Into the Light 2010-02-19T20:16:00Z

Garrow adds nothing to our understanding of Obama’s intellectual evolution during his years at Columbia, or the role that the civil rights movement played in shaping his political consciousness and ideals. A Long, Long Look at Obama’s Life, Mostly Before the White House 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

The larger world presses in, as it must, and there are references to the civil rights movement here and there. ‘Sylvie’s Love’ Review: In the Mood for Romance, Sighs and Tears 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Watts, who played the slave Coco in Quentin Tarantino’s acclaimed 2012 film, issued a statement in response to the civil rights activists’ press conference. Django Unchained actor asked to apologise over LAPD racism claims 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

He also visited Peaches Restaurant, founded in 1961, where freedom riders and civil rights activists including Martin Luther King Jr. ate. Film explores African-Americans' unhealthy "soul food" habit 2012-12-27T17:01:21Z

"To me," she continues, "the idea of losing concentrated black voting power as a bittersweet coda to the civil rights movement matters every day." Attica Locke channels bitter political memories into 'Pleasantville' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

He changed one sentence from “They believed him,” referring to how civil rights leaders felt about Johnson, to “They believed in him.” Caro exhibit ‘Turn the Page’ is a window into his world 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The DOJ and the attorney general should be the chief enforcer of the nation’s civil rights law. The president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on race relations in the Trump era 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The sessions proved effective, and other civil rights organizations adopted similar training methods. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

Some civil rights historians, while questioning Mr. Califano’s wording, agreed with his broader point that Johnson and Dr. King were partners, not adversaries. Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in 'Selma’ Raises Hackles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

In particular, the Academy was criticized for failing to recognize the civil rights drama “Selma,” a best picture nominee, in the directing or acting categories. For Spike Lee, an Honorary Oscar, but Diversity Takes Center Stage 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Removing someone’s civil rights by empowering the government to protect and preserve my religious homophobia is not my idea of religious liberty,” Dorhauer writes. This is the religious right’s radical new plan: The very real efforts to create an American theocracy in plain sight 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

As part of the job he began writing editorials and delivering them himself, many of which called for calm during the early days of the civil rights movement. Bill Monroe, ?Meet the Press? Host, Dies at 90 2011-02-17T21:40:07Z

In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights lawyer, posted a picture on Twitter that seemed to encapsulate a year’s worth of racial and cultural faux pas from major fashion brands. Miuccia Prada Will Be Getting Sensitivity Training 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The daughter of civil rights activists, she was raised in a household that welcomed a diverse community of guests. Trump’s white nationalism torments us now, but the “centrality of whiteness” will fade away 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

They hosted some pretty major black civil rights figures and events, so it was definitely a pretty critical place. 'A practical solution to a horrific problem': When even Los Angeles needed havens for black drivers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Other winners include Michelle Alexander, a civil rights attorney from Columbus, Ohio, who wrote the book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." 'Trombone Shorty,' 4 others receive $250,000 Heinz Awards 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Yes, it has: not least in the disheartening role now played by the Court on matters of civil rights. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

"Selma," which focuses on the civil rights leader's role in the seminal 1965 marches in Alabama for black voters' rights, was percolating for years and several directors had come and gone. 'Selma' director makes history before awards are bestowed 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

While at college, he co-founded a small literary press and magazine, Lillabulero, and entered into the social ferment of the civil rights era, becoming involved with Students for a Democratic Society and participating in protests. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

It affects over a million Americans, according to the American Parkinson Disease Association, including Michael J. Fox and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the longtime civil rights leader. Alan Alda Reveals He Has Parkinson’s Disease 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Two years ago representatives from Southern state tourism departments gathered at Georgia State University to start work on what would become the nation’s first civil rights trail. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The civil rights movie "Selma" may not have gotten a lot of Oscar love, but President Barack Obama was giving it a lot of attention on Friday. Obama holds White House screening of Oscar-snubbed film Selma 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The collection colors were restricted to skin tones, and not just the pink that in the days before the civil rights movement Crayola crayons universalized as “Flesh.” Men’s Fashion Review: Gucci, Calvin Klein, Prada and More 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

It is a succession of improvised sculptures that bear witness to the history of the diaspora and of civil rights, the contributions of Black people and events shaping the country. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Flowers’s parents were activists, and her childhood home in Lowndes County was a haven for civil rights leaders. How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Its lessons focus on six main areas: music, meaning, cotton, transportation, civil rights and media. Mississippi embraces its blues in schools 2013-12-27T03:27:30Z

The bride is also a stepdaughter of Scott Williams, a civil rights lawyer and partner in the law firm Berkey Williams in Berkeley, Calif. Margaret Olmos, Joshua Pollack 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Follett offers a particularly impressive portrait of the civil rights era and of the frustratingly slow struggle for basic human freedoms. ‘Edge of Eternity,’ the final installment in Ken Follett’s sweeping trilogy

Yet increasing numbers of young blacks, appalled by scenes of African Americans being brutally treated by well-armed white police, were frustrated by what they saw as the passivity of the civil rights movement. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

This April marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the towering figure in the struggle for civil rights, champion of the poor and outspoken opponent of war. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Two world wars, the Holocaust, anti-colonial movements and the stirrings of the civil rights movement in the US all combined to change human consciousness, at least in the developed world, in the mid-20th century. Why the left is wrong about immigration 2013-03-27T11:59:50Z

The resistance to civil rights was once Selma’s shame. Ferguson is now a symbol, not a place

An array of photographs, objects, and clips from television and film from the late 1940s to the mid-’70s show how the civil rights movement gained traction through the mass media. The Week Ahead: May 16 ? 22 2010-05-13T14:25:00Z

He was in his 20s then and his civil rights work was one of the formative experiences of his life. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Dee, who won acclaim in films, theater and television and along with her late husband actor Ossie Davis, was a notable figure in the U.S. civil rights movement. N.Y. memorial service to honor life of actress, activist Ruby Dee 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

For them, and for their allies like myself, the charter school movement is the next chapter in the civil rights struggle. Charter schools and the struggle for progress: Why the NAACP has it wrong on the chapter of the civil rights struggle 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

These are state or local administrative bodies that specialize in human or civil rights. When You Experience Sexual Harassment at Work 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The civil rights and women’s movements were happening then. Rita Williams-Garcia wraps up Gaither sisters’ tale in ‘Gone Crazy in Alabama’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

The two would likely have remained a world apart had the civil rights movement not rolled through their communities and their two high schools consolidated into one. ‘To show them in a kind of glory’: How a high-end designer celebrates working-men chic 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Both artists engaged in the struggle for civil rights, albeit to varying degrees. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

“Both civil rights preachers and F.B.I. agents coequally tolerated the abuse of women,” he said. His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Still, a “civil rights sports movie” was a low priority for the studio. Not just a football movie: How ‘Remember the Titans’ became a hit and inspired a nation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

But “Soul of a Nation” highlights art made by African-American artists between 1963 and 1983, 20 years that saw the emergence of the civil rights movement and the more militant call for black power. A Tate Modern Show Examines Race in the U.S. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Charters had long been involved in the civil rights movement and left-wing causes, and the Vietnam War infuriated him. Samuel Charters, Foundational Scholar of the Blues, Dies at 85 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

While song lyrics did not explicitly mention the ongoing civil rights protests emerging across the nation in the 1960s, Motown didn't entirely ignore racial politics. "What’s Going On" at 50 — Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is as relevant today as it was in 1971 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

“Ten Freedom Summers,” an opus inspired by the civil rights movement, was only partly unpacked in this concert, featuring Mr. Smith on trumpet with his Golden Quartet and a chamber ensemble. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z

In 1963, a pivotal time in civil rights history, Marshall’s family moved from Birmingham to the Watts area of Los Angeles. For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Tuesday I went to the Capitol Visitor Center to see the documentary “I Am Somebody” and hear about civil rights in South Carolina. Lonnae O’Neal: I wish everyone could see history the way my son and I did 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Swept into the civil rights movement with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a close friend, Mr. Belafonte eventually shifted most of his energies from entertainment to advocacy. Harry Belafonte Receives Humanitarian Oscar 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The civil rights leader's descendants are working on their own biopic and are said to object to the "warts and all" portrayal the Bourne Ultimatum director is planning. Forest Whitaker in talks to play Martin Luther King 2013-05-31T09:10:08Z

The FBI launched a civil rights probe into the killing, according to the LA Times, spending eight years on the case. FBI releases files on Notorious BIG murder 2011-04-07T14:31:16Z

Ms. Feldstein, however, uncovers Ms. Carroll’s history of early activism on behalf of the civil rights movement. Books of The Times: ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Salutes Black Female Entertainers 2014-01-15T21:27:33Z

Putting it another way, Clyburn quotes his friend Andrew Young, the former ambassador and civil rights leader, who “used to say all the time that black folks have the best antenna.” Jim Clyburn changed everything for Joe Biden’s campaign. He’s been a political force for a long time. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Long before the Oscar-nominated "Selma" was championed as the first major motion picture about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., another film chronicled the civil rights leader's march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. A prior journey across the bridge in 'Selma, Lord, Selma' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Jessica Luther speculates that this may have something to do with the way we experience civil rights as omnipresent in our communities in ways that the North does not. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

“My Lord” shows its characters turning setbacks into opportunities to advance the cause of civil rights. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Foner agrees with the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner that the Reconstruction amendments were “sleeping giants,” and notes that they provided the foundation for the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

It’s donating to, or getting involved with, civil rights and media rights organizations. Our First Amendment test is here. We can’t afford to flunk it. 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

She was president of the PTA and attended early civil rights protests, but ended up in “mental wards” and tried to commit suicide by leaping from an Atlantic City pier. Books of The Times: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Living With a Wild God’ 2014-04-15T13:00:01Z

In other words, it was literally everything that was going on in the 1960s besides civil rights issues that made white Southerners eventually fully embrace the Republican Party. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

Alabama is a deeply conservative state, and Sherer expects some "push back" once people begin filtering through the exhibit, located beside galleries that document the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and `60s. Ala. civil rights museum exhibiting lesbian photos 2012-03-29T21:03:12Z

See the performance that earned Ruth Negga an Oscar nomination in “Loving,” about a landmark civil rights case. What’s on TV Saturday: Ruth Negga in ‘Loving,’ and the new ‘Ghostbusters’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Farrakhan was chief minister of the Nation of Islam’s Boston mosque at the time the civil rights leader was killed. Netflix series explores the assassination of Malcolm X 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

What they were interested in they’d talk about at home, so topics like the civil rights movement were common currency at the dinner table. Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I don’t give advice to my children’ 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

As a white American woman who lived through the entire civil rights period I felt then, as I do now, a deep sense of shame about my country. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The network originally announced the docuseries as Generation KKK, but changed the title and enlisted civil rights groups to collaborate on in-show educational content in light of an intense backlash. First Trailer for 'Escaping the KKK' Reveals A&E's Controversial Klan Docuseries 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

We forget that the same language blacks and whites use to describe Blacks Lives Matter advocates — troublemaker, unpatriotic, communist, danger to society — was also applied to Dr. King and other civil rights organizations. Myths about Martin Luther King Jr. damage and diminish his legacy 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Such a measure, deemed censorship by some, is framed in terms of civil rights. Children should learn about relationships as well as sex 2013-02-16T23:05:29Z

Nine days later he returned to his studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts,  but he was determined to make civil rights a part of his life. “Something happened to me in Selma”: 50 years ago, a young white seminary student risked everything for the call of civil rights 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

On another, it’s a lucid recap of many of the signal events of the civil rights movement. Review: ‘True South’ Illuminates the Man Behind ‘Eyes on the Prize’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The galvanizing civil rights activist and Intercept columnist is no stranger to crazy timelines. Weaponizing CPS: Shaun King says a troll called in a phony child services complaint on his family 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a wave coming — the civil rights movement, the psychedelic movement, Dylan plugging in. Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

On the positive side, it’s home to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, a civil rights icon, whose simple epitaph reads, “Patriot.” The State That Foreshadows America’s Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

His work during the civil rights era — he marched in Selma, and had been close to Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. — was behind him too. Dick Gregory, a Humorist With Many Passions and a Singular Gift 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

Earlier in the day, civil rights leaders announced that they are reviving an economic justice campaign first planned by King. Remembering the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his death 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Her outspoken advocacy of black civil rights didn’t sit well in Port Arthur, where virulent racism was rampant. Review: In ‘Janis: Little Girl Blue,’ Exploring Joplin’s Demons 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

But as Kate Masur explains in her revelatory new book, “Until Justice Be Done,” there was another civil rights movement that took place a century before. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The exhibition takes viewers through a sweep of the civil rights movement, the rise of Harlem, and introduces the new millennium with contemporary art work, and media featuring Barack Obama's presidency. Black artists' exploration of race and segregation on show in Paris 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

People working for the causes of civil rights win by making their case a personal intimate concern to people who would hear them. Why "Red Table Talk" is the closest inheritor to Oprah's mantle as TV's great celebrity confessional 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

The American musical came of age before the civil rights movement, however, and over the past generation some notable works have come in for substantial stripping and refinishing. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis said that events like this have been an invaluable tool in imparting lessons from the civil rights movement onto younger Americans. Selma Hosts Its Own Civil Rights Concert 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Her father, David Chavkin, worked in and out of government on civil rights law; he’s now retired. Her ‘Great Comet’ Glowed. Now She’s Heading to ‘Hadestown’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

At her Catholic high school in the early civil rights period, faith mixed with politics. Alfre Woodard: 'We want all those with a stake in the death row business to see this film' 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

With citizenship, there really is a there there, even as the struggle over civil rights continued, arguably into our own moment. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

From the beginning he is highly observant of the world around him and intellectually curious, traits that forecast the bold civil rights activist he will later become. Sports Stories That Transcend Sport 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Even if you look at a civil rights movement in the South itself, there were Southern whites involved — not in large numbers — but especially in the real grassroots kind of rural areas. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

His story is interspersed with letters he writes to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lamenting how little race relations have improved since the civil rights movement. Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Books and Black Lives Matter 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the civil rights movement's brightest star, Thurgood Marshall was its unsung hero. Wil Haygood's 'Showdown' explores Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination fight 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

He reads about protests and bus boycotts in Life magazine, and he dreams of one day joining those brave witnesses in the civil rights cause. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

All three women lived through the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Great Depression and the civil rights movement. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

The exhibition investigates the First Amendment’s role in the civil rights movement. Art made on the front lines of the First World War 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Throughout his career, Mr. Indiana used his art to address political and ethical issues, particularly those involving civil rights and peace. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Skiff also claimed the actions of the "Bruno" crew violated his civil rights and that their appearance at the rally was intended solely to create conflict for the film. Cameraman sues Sacha Baron Cohen over 'Bruno' spat 2010-10-27T01:30:00Z

In later years, he was an important figure within the civil rights movement. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday's episode of "Finding Your Roots," civil rights activist Angela Davis learned a series of surprising facts about her ancestral history, but one revelation left her outright shocked. Civil rights activist Angela Davis learns surprising genealogy on "Finding Your Roots" 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

King became a national figure helping lead a boycott of the then-segregated public bus system in Montgomery, Ala., which caught the public’s attention as the civil rights movement was gathering steam. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, students rejected Greek life as a bastion of reactionary politics and racism, and dropped their affiliation en masse. The War on Frats 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

“I wonder if I can write books or hold a position of influence in civil rights,” he adds. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

And I sat down and went over the various things I had gone through during the civil rights era. How to raise successful children — advice from parents lucky enough to know 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

The main character, and central audience focal point, is Skeeter, Emma Stone's do-gooder college-graduate journalist, continuing Hollywood's long tradition of depicting the civil rights era as a major crisis in the lives of white people. What we talk about when we talk about "The Help" 2011-08-17T22:18:00Z

The final installment in Lewis’s civil rights trilogy completes one of the most powerful graphic memoirs ever. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Garrow’s article is “potentially important research for rounding out King as a complicated person, and for giving new perspectives on women’s experiences in the civil rights movement,” she said. His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

The world continues to mourn Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, writer, actress, director, civil rights icon, professor: a woman who inspired and touched millions with her poems — some of which were only 140 characters. Maya Angelou’s Twitter feed may be the best poem she ever wrote 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

As always in times of panic, civil rights die faster than follicles. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yet he is following the burgeoning civil rights movement in the South, and is outraged by the violent abuse of young Black protesters. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Battiste also arranged Sam Cooke’s first secular hit, "You Send Me," and played piano on perhaps his greatest song, the civil rights anthem "A Change Is Gonna Come." Harold Battiste, influential New Orleans jazz musician, dies at 83 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

By the 1930s, this African American civil rights movement had created loose alliances with similar movements for national liberation in colonies across Africa and the world. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

Of course, King’s letter is about much more than punctuation, but here is an instance in which the semicolon did its small part for civil rights. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Atlanta, the capital, has a storied civil rights legacy, an influential hip-hop scene and booming film studios. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Scholars and music critics are spilling barrels of ink to rightfully praise her voice, her civil rights activism, her place in the pantheon of music. Aretha Franklin Was the Personification of Black Woman Magic 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Actor Danny Glover and two other recipients of this year's Freedom Awards spoke Thursday about the importance of education and the role young people played in the civil rights movement. Danny Glover talks about education in Memphis 2011-11-11T00:10:22Z

A replica of that robe is part of the Ali exhibit, along with photos of the heavyweight boxing and civil rights champion and other artifacts. Exhibits about Ali, nature, motorcycles opening at Graceland 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it is Kennedy’s work on civil rights and poverty that reverberates most powerfully through history. A work in progress 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

It's been said that the United States hasn't seen comparable social upheaval since the civil rights and anti-war struggles of the sixties and seventies. Did we learn anything from the hippies? 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

McQueen, whose previous films include Shame and Hunger, is currently developing a movie about the life of the 20th century US entertainer and civil rights campaigner Paul Robeson. McQueen saddened by US race protests 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Her maternal grandfather was involved in the civil rights movement. ‘Black-ish’ Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Attendees identified hip-hop songs by their first few seconds and answered questions about local landmarks and civil rights heroes. Trivia Found a Way in the Pandemic 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the direct-action tactics of the black civil rights movement, he argued that the gay rights movement needed to speak for itself and confront official discrimination head-on. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Though he was arrested before the ruling, his case was yet another example of the frequent violation of the civil rights of Haitians, especially poor ones, on Dominican soil. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The practise of directly addressing inequality underpins countless social justice movements, from civil rights to Standing Rock. Call-out culture: how to get it right (and wrong) 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Board of Education, which interpreted the equal protection clause of the Constitution to bar segregation, and through the 1960s-era civil rights acts, which prohibited many types of discrimination in public and private life. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Supporters primarily defined the issue as one of civil rights. Media study: more pro views on same-sex marriage 2013-06-17T04:06:07Z

How could Americans of all racial backgrounds not have mourned the death of the great civil rights leader? This powerful image perfectly captures how divided America was when MLK died 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The museum under his leadership held a show on Black art and civil rights unrest from 1967 and another on works created by African-Americans that are owned by Detroit area collectors. Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

The studio also consulted the civil rights group Color of Change. Colorism reveals many shades of prejudice in Hollywood 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Clyburn, who got his start as a civil rights activist in the 1960s, has rebuked Black Lives Matter activists for using the slogan. Black voters played a crucial role in Joe Biden’s victory. Can he keep their trust? 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Feliz, 39, is the vice president for policy and legislative affairs, in Washington, for the National Urban League, the civil rights organization. Susie Saavedra, Jose Feliz 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Ochs, who committed suicide in 1976, was an influential folk singer in the 1960s and an important voice among those protesting against the Vietnam War and on behalf of the civil rights movement. Phil Ochs Archives Go to Woody Guthrie Center 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

He was later a series producer of the award-winning “Eyes on the Prize,” a program on the civil rights movement, and directed documentaries about the Great Depression and Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

The standard criticism of Nixon’s victories is that they involved, in essence, an opportunistic annexation of racist white southern Democrats who had been orphaned when the national Democratic Party embraced civil rights. The populist manifesto 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

I don’t see that, but I do sense that Libby finds Robert’s cause – civil rights – to be something that would give her definition, an outside life. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Personal Is the Clinical 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

The book is about black maids living in Jackson, Miss., in the 1960s as the civil rights movement was taking shape. 'The Help' to start filming in Miss. this summer 2010-05-13T23:16:00Z

What to do about the Faulkner who famously said of the civil rights struggle: “Go slow now.” The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Throughout the film we see her campaigning for civil rights and protesting unsafe labor conditions, sometimes putting herself in harm’s way. Review: Workers Have a Friend in the Determined ‘Dolores’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Several legal experts interpreted the 38-page civil rights complaint as a sign that criminal prosecution may be stalled. Where’s Harvey? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

During a scene in which Darrow, a civil rights lawyer, delivers a courtroom speech, a phone began to ring. Mobile phone interrupts Spacey play 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

"I don't think a woman in the workplace is going to follow that trend," David Scher, a civil rights attorney in Washington, said with a laugh. Gray hair's in fashion, but what about at work? 2012-04-02T15:53:18Z

DuVernay may have in mind a different history—not of civil rights but of American cinema. “Selma” Vs. “Selma” 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

You could almost argue, Why not just stick to civil rights? Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists at the 1968 Olympics in support of civil rights movements in the U.S. and around the world. World Cup 2022: Men’s soccer must stop silencing activism and allyship 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

She heard him talk about the Moses generation — the elders who had marched for civil rights — and referred to himself as part of the Joshua generation, the beneficiary of those victories. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Both shows were of the moment in their close attention to social issues, but Lindelof’s comic-book tale won over the Television Academy at the end of a summer of civil rights protests. Emmys Toast ‘Watchmen’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ as Stars Stay Home 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

Her real father, as she found out late in life, was the celebrated ’60s civil rights photographer Bob Adelman, with whom her mother had had an affair. Elizabeth Wurtzel Finally Grew Up, Like the Rest of Gen X 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Dempsey, 31, is an associate at the San Francisco office in the civil rights and wage-and-hour class actions practice at Outten & Golden, an employment law firm based in New York. Rachel Dempsey, Bryn Williams 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Crump was the beneficiary of the civil rights giant’s legal triumph in Brown v. the Board of Education but the school was also his first encounter with racial and economic inequality. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The WMF list also highlights 12 buildings in Alabama that played a role in the U.S. civil rights movement. British piers, Alabama buildings named among 25 at-risk monuments 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The excessive response from the local police prompted a civil rights probe from the Department of Justice, under the leadership of then Attorney General Eric Holder, for a history of racial bias. Darren Wilson walks: Grand jury will not indict Ferguson police officer in killing of Michael Brown 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It captured my interest and emotions from start to finish, even as it presented an extraordinarily layered account of the different factions in both the civil rights movement and the Congress. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Robert Schenkkan's LBJ 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

One of Mr. Lewis’s goals for “March” was to teach younger readers about the civil rights movement and to use it to inspire nonviolent civil disobedience. ‘March’ Graphic Novel Revisits Civil Rights Movement in Rich Detail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

A pacifist, she was a leading voice in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam war protest. AP Interview: Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam 2013-04-10T06:16:05Z

So I've been doing a lot of research on Mississippi and the Delta and the civil rights era, and what came before, and what came after. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Ben Crump, 51, is a civil rights lawyer. ‘We can’t engage in the intellectual justification of discrimination,’ says lawyer representing George Floyd's family 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Seberg's personal travails were made worse when the FBI targeted her because of her support for civil rights groups. Bonjour Tristesse: a golden-age masterpiece ripe for rediscovery 2012-10-10T11:42:04Z

As vice president, he had been strong on civil rights and in his first term as president he worked with movement veterans, including Black Power advocates, to promote “black capitalism.” Can You Be Black and Republican? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

The adoption rights movement gained traction, arguing that “access to one’s own birth certificate is a human and civil right.” Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

At the request of the Richland County sheriff, federal authorities opened a civil rights investigation Tuesday. Lonnae O’Neal: Unclear on excessive force? Just imagine it’s a white girl. 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

And even before the civil rights movement, there are many pictures showing black and white children and adults together. Pa. exhibit showcases legendary black photographer 2011-11-27T22:31:04Z

Before jazz was eclipsed by rock music in the mid-’60s, it was the sound of civil rights, of black nationalism, of riot and protest in the street. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights. The Smollett Family Business: Acting and Activism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

I've been going to protests since I was 10 – any kind of civil rights cause. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

“The civil rights movement was longer, messier, more radical and crucially was thwarted in more of its aims than many of us were taught in schools,” he said. John Oliver: US schools must avoid 'impulse to downplay the horrors of slavery' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Lewis was on the program to promote his graphic novel series, "March," which retells of the civil rights movement from Lewis's perspective. Congressman John Lewis crowd surfs after Colbert interview 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was a song that inserted her into the forefront, at least musically, of the civil rights movement. Books of The Times: Under a Strange, Soulful Spell 2010-02-19T05:52:00Z

Hendricks’s interest in Black figuration in the 1960s and 1970s put him outside the mainstream of Black artists during that period, many largely preoccupied with civil rights and the Black Power movement. Portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks Will Hang With Old Masters at the Frick 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

“Fight the Power” examines the labor movement of the 1880s, women’s suffrage and civil rights along with the LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter initiatives. Q&A: Abdul-Jabbar talks new documentary, MLK, social justice 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Now hailed as an early masterwork of the civil rights movement, the album radicalized Ms. Lincoln’s reputation. Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z

“I can’t ignore that there were very many other people active in civil rights, but Jackie Robinson not only integrated baseball but was also part of a World Series team here in Brooklyn,” he said. Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

A coalition of civil rights and women's groups had urged the Las Vegas resort to postpone Cosby's appearance pending an investigation of his alleged victims' claims. Bill Cosby Vegas show latest to be canceled as rape allegations swirl 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

He adds, to underscore the point, “That’s what the civil rights movement was about.” Beyond the Trump Show? Two Political Plays in Chicago Give It a Try 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, Robinson's relentless advocacy got the attention of the country's civil rights leaders. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

It will mark her role, through songs such as 1967’s “Respect,” in scoring a soundtrack for the civil rights movement, with remarks from activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Aretha Franklin to be hailed as American institution at funeral 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

These were real civil rights fighters because they made sure that these young people had the knowledge that they needed to have. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

In its favor: Since its mid-November premiere at AFI Fest, the civil rights drama "Selma" has racked up great reviews, plenty of critics prizes and four Golden Globe nominations. Christmas movies vying for Oscar voters' attention 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

Notes From the Field is really a trumpet blaring for people to get on board with what I think is a new civil rights movement. 8 Questions With Anna Deavere Smith 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

He describes the president as the head of the “white civil rights movement” and explains that there are four kinds of white people. Dropping in at the Comedy Cellar With Amy Schumer and Leslie Jones 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The flag was adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and was frequently brandished by counter-protesters at civil rights marches. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

During the 1960s, Spock became a political activist, opposing the Vietnam War and nuclear proliferation and supporting civil rights. Dr. Spock’s timeless lessons in parenting 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

But the partnership between the civil rights movement and the McDonald’s Corporation bristled with compromises and contradictions from the beginning. The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

One winner this year is the Rev. William J. Barber II, a North Carolina pastor who has become a leading civil rights activist. MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Fellowships 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

At the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, Robinson watched in horror as the right-wing delegates roared their disapproval of Rockefeller, a supporter of civil rights. Jackie Robinson’s Inner Struggle 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Was Woodrow Wilson a key founder of modern liberalism, a visionary whose belief in an activist presidency laid the groundwork for the New Deal and the civil rights legislation of the 1960s? Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy Gets Complicated 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, two activists with southern roots who had both been involved with the civil rights movement. New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

In the early 1960s, firsthand reports of the civil rights protests roiling the country barely penetrated the cushioned Boston suburb where I grew up. Warhol at the Whitney: Why This One Work Is So Stirring 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Was the original manuscript too politically explosive for the period — too sharp a reflection of the civil rights battles brewing at the time? Racism of Atticus Finch in ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Could Alter Harper Lee’s Legacy 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

He also paid the rent of civil rights icon Rosa Parks for 11 years. Little Caesars founder paid Rosa Parks’ rent for 11 years 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

At the height of civil rights tensions, an all-black high school in Columbus, Ohio, wins unprecedented dual state championships in basketball and baseball. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The experience of visiting some of the sites immortalized in the civil rights photographs was its own kind of recalibration, often a jarring one, he said. Leslie Hewitt Dives Deep Into the Civil Rights Movement 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Buck would campaign for social justice in China and in America, where she spoke out for women’s and civil rights. Books of The Times: ?Pearl Buck in China,? by Hilary Spurling 2010-06-09T00:02:00Z

It could be an argument heard in a court today — except that the year is 1925, long before the civil rights era, before Black Lives Matter. Before Black Lives Matter there was Clarence Darrow, brought to life onstage in Ventura 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

White’s mission expands the idea of what civil rights work might entail nowadays — more fund-raisers than fire hoses. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Her mother was a homemaker and civil rights activist whose obituary began with the line: “Victoria Jackson lived by 11 commandments.” Audraine’s choice: Why one conflicted Southern black voter just can’t decide 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Cameron, a sociology major, dreamed of becoming a civil rights lawyer, which would mean law school, and still more debt. A Morehouse mom on Smith’s student-debt pledge: ‘It’s still taking a lot for it to sink in’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Two further major studios were also rated “failing” by the civil rights organisation. Glaad calls for gay characters in Star Wars: Episode VIII 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

“It definitely would not have worked without all five of us,” said Marilyn Shrewsbury, 32, a lawyer who focuses on civil rights cases in Louisville, Ky. At Britney Spears’s Hearing, This Twitter Feed Scooped the World 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

At times, it also alarmingly suggests that the civil rights movement roiled things up, making people who “used to trust each other” now “watch each other like hawks.” Review: Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Moctesuma Esparza, producer: “Walkout” is one of the very few films that documents the Chicano civil rights movement, which was pivotal in the advancement of rights for Latinos in the United States. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Horne, who was also a dancer and civil rights activist, died last May at the age of 92. Lena Horne's NYC apartment artifacts to be sold 2011-02-23T16:25:09Z

Alabama was where Bull Connor, the racist public safety commissioner of Birmingham, harassed civil rights advocates. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Davis links her mother’s generosity with the bigger outlays of the established numbers operators, some of whom used their profits to fund Detroit’s civil rights movement. Remembering a Mother Whose Gambling Operation Was a Very Successful Secret 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Once a Nation of Islam follower and teenage civil rights activist who read Alan Watts and Krishnamurti before he read the Bible, Mr. Bernard presents more like a professor than a bible thumper. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

“I marched with Dr. Martin Luther King,” she says, sharing a story about a demonstration the late civil rights leader led through a Chicago park in 1966 when she was an 18-year-old student. Former senator Carol Moseley Braun is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Joe Biden 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

If there was anything wrong with Denzel Washington's depiction of the controversial hero of the civil rights movement, it was the lack of fiery catchphrases. What's in a name? 2011-01-18T20:00:02Z

Census Bureau — that grew up knowing the transformative civil rights law as a birthright. Disability Pride: The High Expectations of a New Generation 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

It had seen the violence of Jim Crow and the civil rights movement — and like restaurants across the South, it had become a site of those struggles. A Mississippi Restaurant Has Been Beloved for Decades. But There’s Another Story to Tell. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

And several recent killings of unarmed Black people sparked a summer of nationwide protests and a revived civil rights movement. Why the Mueller Investigation Failed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

“The idea was to use science fiction as a metaphor for the issues of the time – the civil rights movement, African-Americans’ struggle for equality, the peace movement during the Vietnam war, the cold war. Star Trek’s George Takei: ‘I’d take a female friend to premieres. Then go out to a gay bar’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But this martyrology, which is accompanied by a wall listing the civil rights legislation of recent decades, is presented as a kind of closure. National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

In 2008, Mr. Lewis told Mr. Aydin, his digital director and policy adviser, how influential the comic book had been on him and the civil rights movement. ‘March’ Graphic Novel Revisits Civil Rights Movement in Rich Detail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

“And this is the most excitement I’ve ever seen from groups on the left. That includes the civil rights era, Vietnam. . . . People know to strike when the iron is hot.” Trump has been great for the economy. The anti-Trump economy, that is. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel said that according to New York civil rights law, there may be a way for Svenson's subjects to challenge him in court but the case will depend entirely on context. NYers furious over photos taken through windows 2013-05-17T11:22:09Z

The museum traces the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

That included a Revolutionary War ancestor and a mother who marched for civil rights, but no slaveowner. PBS sets internal review over Ben Affleck's 'Finding Your Roots' segment 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Was Lyndon B. Johnson a civil rights mastermind, or a reluctant follower pulled along by activists led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in 'Selma’ Raises Hackles 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

To 10 Jun. ART Nancy spero Active in the civil rights movement, this American artist drew on sources including Roman frescoes and fashion magazines to produce her scroll paintings, paper works and wall hangings. Winter Arts Calendar 2010-12-26T00:05:15Z

But especially when compared with the gains and losses of other civil rights movements, as George Floyd’s public murder made clear, the progress made in my lifetime by the women’s liberation movement is breathtaking. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

But over all, Mr. Beaty shines an illuminating light on the life of an important American artist who was an equally significant activist, well before the advent of the civil rights movement. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

She fought against lynching and fought for women’s suffrage and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

“The ‘I Am a Man’ image is one of the enduring images of the civil rights movement,” he said. When Life Gets in the Way of Art 2010-09-26T03:00:00Z

Wang, now a civil rights lawyer, focuses on her early years in the United States, and how she and her family grappled with the precarity and vulnerability they faced. 7 New Memoirs to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

News of the find comes just as the charter, often regarded as England’s first step towards civil rights, marks its 800th anniversary. Unearthed From Town's Archives: Copy of Magna Carta From 1300 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

There is good news and bad news about “It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior,” the memoir of civil rights icon C.T. Review | In C.T. Vivian’s memoir, a civil rights icon looks back at his life as a ‘nonviolent warrior’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Politically, he said he was shaped by watching the civil rights movement unfold on television. Richard Norton Smith Dissects Nelson Rockefeller 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“One act was powerful and important — using social media to create a new civil rights battlefield,” Ronson writes in the afterword to the paperback edition. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Narratives about civil rights victories are inherently tricky because telling those stories is not proprietary to any particular group. BlacKkKlansman: the grim topicality of Spike Lee's 70s-set KKK film 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

“Kind of Kin” is concerned with legal rights and civil rights. ‘Kind of Kin’: lines that divide a small Oklahoma town 2013-02-13T22:31:22Z

Or, back in 1963, for the quarter-million who thronged the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, creating a landmark moment in the civil rights movement. New gallery adds another dimension with its spacious 'Abstract Sculpture by Women' 1947-2016 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

With civil rights activists planning protests and boycotts, the Academy’s failure to nominate any actor of color for two years in a row has left its sponsors spooked. Advertisers are the potential losers at Oscars amid calls for protests and boycotts 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights decided to expand its biennial report on civil rights issues in public schools to include school bullying. Girls experience more gender-related bullying than boys 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

This wasn’t one of those nearly invisible black actresses who filled Hollywood movies in the years before the civil rights era, the woman at the edge of the screen announcing visitors and taking hats. Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z

I think hopefully if all goes well and people get to embrace the film, she will become one of those civil rights icons that she deserves to be. "Don't bite your tongue for no one": Tupac's mom, Afeni Shakur, taught him how to rebel and prevail 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The back story to the civil rights period is the European slave trade, which arrived in what is now Mississippi with Spanish colonists in the 16th century, and expanded under French, then British occupation. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

After the family befriended Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, the Staples Singers’ civil rights anthems became the soundtrack of the movement. The Eagles, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, James Taylor at a bittersweet Kennedy Center Honors 2016 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

He’s witnessed the election of Donald Trump, whom he has called “without a doubt” the “worst president for civil rights since the 1960s”. 'We've made too much progress to slow down': tracking John Lewis's long fight 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

But then as Jeanne Theoharis shows in “A More Beautiful and Terrible History,” civil rights activists half a century ago faced a similarly hostile reception. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

The site opened to visitors in 2011 and features a towering statue of the slain civil rights leader, along with quotations from his speeches and sermons. Beyond Obama's oath, what to see and taste in DC 2013-01-18T11:31:05Z

This searing presentation of the F.B.I.’s file on and harassment of the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson brings an exceptional series to an extraordinary close. Review: Ingenious Versatility in the Whitney’s ‘Open Plan’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Board of Education, the towering 1954 civil rights landmark, and his years as the Supreme Court’s first black justice. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

She is credited with helping to shape Mr. Buffett’s liberal politics — along with a reaction to his beloved father’s conservative principles — through her interest in the civil rights movement. ‘Becoming Warren Buffett’ Goes Beyond a $74 Billion Fortune 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Her father was a radio journalist who spent much of the ’60s covering the civil rights movement, and her mother was an actress who trained with Uta Hagen. Cynthia Nixon’s Embrace of Political Activism 2013-05-24T21:13:01Z

Using several influential hashtags, people expressed their opinions about social justice at a time when the country was openly grappling with civil rights, discrimination and racism. Twitter’s Top Hashtags, Tweets and Users for 2015 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

What skills did Rosa Parks use to fight for civil rights? How To Talk to Your Kids About the Contributions of African American Women 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Since the civil rights movement, in popular culture and in any kind of mainstream opinion, the racists were the bad guys. White nationalists love Tucker Carlson, and other startling discoveries in “Rising Out of Hatre... 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Opponents say that the deal undermines privacy and, potentially, civil rights. In Transit Blog: Morning Walkabout: 4/20 2012-04-20T15:43:16Z

He was an important, thrilling voice during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

It tracks the Alabama native’s rise in the civil rights movement and his long career in Congress, where he introduced the bill creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Cultural organizations across the nation host documentary and discussion about John Lewis 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

The fourth volume of Caro’s magisterial work spans the five years that end shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, as Johnson prepares to push for a civil rights act. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Among Ms. Townsend’s litigators was Ben Crump, who has gained national renown as a civil rights lawyer representing the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Directing the program will be Orlando Bagwell, whose credits include the award-winning PBS series “Eyes on the Prize,” which looked at the civil rights movement. ArtsBeat: Ford Foundation to Put Up $50 Million for Documentaries 2011-01-18T19:09:00Z

“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader. The Smollett Family Business: Acting and Activism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The motor operated throughout significant events in 20th-century American history, including World War II, Vietnam and the civil rights movement. Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

An ongoing exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York chronicles 350 years of social activism in the city, including civil rights, immigration, transgender activism and women’s rights. 7 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee died Wednesday at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y, her agent told The Hollywood Reporter. Ruby Dee, Oscar Nominated Actress and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“It’s difficult to conceive of a world without her. Not only was she a uniquely brilliant singer, but her commitment to civil rights made an indelible impact on the world.” Factbox: Twitter becomes a Freeway of Love for singer Aretha Franklin 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Museum features a collection of images from noted Memphis photographer Ernest Withers, including photos from the civil rights movement and live music performances spanning several decades. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

His death, in 1955, was a galvanising moment for the US civil rights movement, and thousands of people attended his funeral. Lil Wayne causes outrage with rap mocking civil rights hero Emmett Till 2013-02-14T12:10:05Z

TV special, she sang a duet with African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

A lot of the progress we’ve made in civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, the media have been there first. Jesuits Run a Hollywood Production Company 2010-04-04T02:58:00Z

In the film, Burns portrays Robinson as a bold, brave civil rights firebrand, a side that was rarely, if ever, seen on the baseball field. Ken Burns zooms in on Jackie Robinson: baseball great and civil rights hero 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Later achievements include the civil rights crime film Mississippi Burning, for which Parker received a second Oscar nomination, and the Bafta-winning Irish musical comedy The Commitments. How Alan Parker progressed to Bafta's top table 2013-01-23T10:11:55Z

Davis was named best actress and Spencer best supporting actress for their roles in the civil rights drama. The Help dominates NAACP awards 2012-02-20T16:40:40Z

The right to marry was a hard-fought civil right in the United States long after the end of the Civil War. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

Carl Lewis and many other former Olympians testify to the fortitude and accomplishments of their predecessors, whose triumphs on the field portended the civil rights victories of future decades. Review: ‘Olympic Pride, American Prejudice’ Recalls Black Athletes in 1936 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The pitchman era came after the expanded opportunities of civil rights, but now, society as a whole is reengaging around issues of inequality and social justice, and the black athlete is part of that reconsideration. Lonnae O’Neal: Meet the new power players: athletes. Case in point: Mizzou 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Modern readers used to tales of the glory of the civil rights movement may be confused by Alice’s surprise and anger, but Minnicks sensitively explores the fact that desegregation wasn’t welcomed by all Black people. Overlooked Black History, in Three New Novels 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

A loving and instructive biography of the late civil rights icon whose unshakable faith that seeking justice by noble means would ultimately lead to redemption. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Postal Service was honoring Maya Angelou, poet, author and civil rights advocate, with her own forever stamp was welcomed by her fans. Maya Angelou’s new stamp uses a quote that may not be entirely hers 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

A documentary about the maverick soul singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone, told through concert footage, interviews, diaries and letters. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

I traveled to Selma on a bus with staff and members of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jesse Jackson’s civil rights organization in Chicago. “America’s Third World”: The marchers have gone, but Selma is still mired in poverty 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

President Obama is expected to cut the ribbon on the dramatic space, which features layers of galleries focused on slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement as well as music, entertainment, sports and politics. A first look inside the Smithsonian’s African American museum: Stunning views, grand scale 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

"I know there's a controversy now," Jackson said, alluding to a fracas around the film, which some say portrays the late president as unduly obstructionist to the civil rights movement. From this Selma house, Martin Luther King made civil rights history 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

But if I were a civil rights lawyer looking to attack systematic inequality in the 21st century, this is an issue that would be at the top of my list. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Her Aug. 31 funeral will be held at Detroit’s 4,000-seat Greater Grace Temple, which was the venue for the 2005 funeral of civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Stevie Wonder heads star line-up for Aretha Franklin funeral 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Your review of “Walk With Me” and “Until I Am Free” brings attention to the underrecognized female civil rights leader. Thomas Mann, Guilty Pleasures and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

A pacifist, she was a leading voice in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War protest. AP Interview: Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam 2013-04-10T15:22:16Z

This country’s gay revolution, Mr. Bram notes, “began as a literary revolution,” far more so than did the civil rights or women’s movements. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z

In an interview with The Washington Post a few months after Dr. King’s death, Mr. Belafonte expressed ambivalence about his high profile in the civil rights movement. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Later she embraced activism, breaking loose as a voice for civil rights and as an artist. Legendary singer Lena Horne dies 2010-05-10T05:35:00Z

But that Atticus knew only the American South of the 1930s and before, when neither society’s racist structure nor his moral rectitude had yet been challenged by the civil rights movement. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Nadler’s constituents support him because he’s a steady liberal voice, a defender of tenants’ rights, women’s rights and civil rights. Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

This situation — and the can-do spirit of the times, cultivated by the civil rights and women’s liberation movements — sparked the members of Jane into action. ‘The Janes’ Review: Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

We were all about peace and love like everybody else," Manzarek commented, "but those were some dark times with Vietnam and the civil rights struggle and political upheaval in the country. Ray Manzarek 2013-05-21T17:33:43Z

Other best picture nominees were "Selma," a slice of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights work, and "The Theory of Everything," a portrait of the marriage of physicist Stephen Hawking. Offbeat films 'Birdman,' 'Budapest Hotel' capture Oscar's eye 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Instead, they have dug deeply into the human story beneath a killing that made headlines and helped ignite the civil rights movement. Revisiting Emmett Till tragedy, in jazz 2011-03-28T23:50:00Z

If the civil rights movement extended beyond April 4, 1968, you don’t learn that here. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

In addition to marking the Day of Remembrance, the exhibition is intended to broach broader themes of civil rights, democracy and justice. Roosevelt's signed Executive Order 9066 on Japanese American internment to go on view in L.A. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

While driving her home from the civil rights office where she volunteers, Robert questions her reasons for working with him. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Some Ties That Bind 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

Alongside a reproduction of a photo of King’s funeral that ran in “Life,” Jaar graphically lays bare the nation’s racial divisions at the time of the civil rights leader’s death. This powerful image perfectly captures how divided America was when MLK died 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Poet, novelist and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died in May at the age of 86, prompting US President Barack Obama to hail her "one of the brightest lights of our time". Famous faces who died in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

At the workshop that Parks attended, civil rights activists talked about strategies for implementing integration. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Duke professor Tyson describes the 1955 death of 14-year-old Emmett Till at the hands of white Southerners, the bias involved in their trial and how these events set the modern civil rights movement into motion. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

As a national correspondent, he covered the civil rights movement, including the assassination and funeral of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and nearly a generation’s worth of political conventions and campaigns. Don Oliver, NBC Correspondent, Dies at 76 2013-06-02T22:54:42Z

A witness to civil rights marches and the upheaval caused by the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Gaines saw student protests quelled by police employing military-style tactics. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

A civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate Southern schools in the 1960s and was pushed out of his University of Mississippi teaching job amid uproar over his work on behalf of Black clients. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Dr. King’s initial vision for the civil rights movement was one of racial harmony; blacks and whites working together to achieve equal lives for all. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

With the crowd of 20,000 singing and chanting freedom songs, that rally marked one of the first civil rights marches in the Northeast. In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

These were the years of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, and poetry seemed an opening in many ways. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

During the civil rights movement, people had secret kitchens and were baking to help pay for activism and different marches and rallies. On a mission to make America bake again 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The two characters, Fay and Everett, are on the forefront of civil rights, so they would listen to someone like Billy, whereas their parents might not. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

And the civil rights movement was not meant to make two separate people; it was meant to make one people. Bill Maher and Fran Lebowitz: When Comedy Cuts Deep 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

In an early sequence, he depicts 31 slain civil rights activists, their names largely lost to us. Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Belafonte's stage and screen career and his activism weren't often overtly entwined, but his stardom was central to marshaling other celebrities to civil rights causes. "A song of rebellion": How Harry Belafonte's dance with fame fed a life of activism 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

News breaks — a mass shooting, a rolling back of civil rights, a vulnerable minority group in the cross hairs of legislation. Time to Make the Donates! 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jarecki uses the Robeson version over the final credits of the documentary, a nod to that singer’s long history of civil rights activism. Movie Review: ‘The House I Live In,’ Directed by Eugene Jarecki 2012-10-04T23:11:01Z

It is said that the images of civil rights protesters in the South enduring the full blast of firehoses turned the tide of the civil rights movement among white moderates in the North. Black lives, white eyes: what's different this time is we're locked down and can't excuse it away 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, Caroline Kennedy will gather members of her father's administration, civil rights activists, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and others to celebrate the 35th president's legacy. On JFK 50th, Kennedy family gathers in Washington 2011-01-20T14:41:59Z

I first got on the trail of “Dynamite Bob” in 1974 when conducting interviews for an oral history of the civil rights movement, “My Soul Is Rested.” Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

This gently playful picture book — one of the first to feature a black child without the trappings of racist stereotypes — was published during the civil rights movement in 1962. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

The film, which is nominated for a best picture Oscar, also won an Image lead actor award for David Oyelowo as the civil rights leader. 'Selma' wins outstanding film of 2014 at NAACP Image Awards 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Two powerful, groundbreaking dramas screening June 19 reflect the civil rights struggles of more than 50 years ago. Early-TV oddities, innovations to screen as part of UCLA archive's anniversary 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Out on July 18 from Penguin Press, the book mixes memoir and reportage with fascinating dips into everything from the development of Braille to the history of the blind civil rights movement. What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

White boys and girls hurled rocks, bottles, and other missiles at civil rights freedom fighters. Donald Trump voter family values: Trump’s supporters are teaching their kids to embrace bigotry 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

His speech to Congress proposing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — when he famously quoted from the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” — is one of the most affecting moments of the movie. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Just down the road is Albany, where Martin Luther King Jr suffered his only defeat in the civil rights movement. Trans, black and loved: what happened when I returned to the deep south after transitioning 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

It died with emancipation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s or the election of Barack Obama. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The R&B duo Chloe x Halle, who will release their sophomore album “Ungodly Hour” on Friday, posted a cover of the classic civil rights anthem and protest song “We Shall Overcome” to Instagram. Music industry calls for Black Out Tuesday amid unrest 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

I’m sorry, Brangelina, but real fighters for civil rights don’t buckle under pressure when it gets hard. Brad and Angelina Getting Married Is a Slap in the Face to Gay Americans 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

“There is no question that the Black Church is one of the parents of the civil rights movement, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement is one of its heirs.” 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

He photographed the civil rights marches led by Rev. Al Sharpton in the late 1980s and early 1990s after white youth killed a young African-American man in Howard Beach. The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City’s streets 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

In a statement following his death, Newark Mayor Luis Quintana hailed Baraka as a man who "used the power of the pen to advance the cause of civil rights". Poet Amiri Baraka dies, aged 72 2014-01-10T11:15:12Z

The McCarthyite danger passed; civil rights advanced; free speech triumphed; liberal democracy spread around the world. The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Parks became a civil rights symbol when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Rosa Parks papers to be open to Library of Congress researchers 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Simone died at age 70 in 2003 after a long career that made her a soul legend and civil rights icon. Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gets ‘National Treasure’ Designation 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Some of the intense back and forth between different coalitions within the civil rights movement shows up in “Selma.” Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

And many “Mockingbird” fans were shocked by the way Atticus is depicted in “Watchman,” which portrays him as an aging racist and segregationist who opposes his daughter Scout’s more enlightened views on civil rights. Broadway ‘Mockingbird’ Is Back on Track, as Court Dispute Ends 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Certainly, the civil rights movement gets romanticized in dishonest ways. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

View him as an enemy of civil rights and upholder of rigid, retrograde mores, and you’re not likely to come out singing the praises of his wisdom and intellectual rigor. Review: ‘The Originalist,’ About Scalia, Opens in Washington 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

There was some progress made by the new deal toward a greater more just society, then there was some progress made in the civil rights era toward that. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Later he participated in the civil rights movement and became the host of “The Nature of Things,” a CBC show in which he showed his talent for translating scientific jargon into layman’s language. | 'Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie': ?Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie? - Review 2011-12-02T00:41:08Z

"Well I get very exercised about politics and civil rights," he says eventually. 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z

On the front page, above the masthead, above the news of a civil rights march, Myer Weinman had scrawled in red pencil: “See page 28 — Biggest story.” Extra, Extra: Historic newspapers free to all comers 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Vogel’s book is a product of its newly liberated times, signaling gains in civil rights and the relaxing of censorship. Tribute to Amos Vogel at Anthology Film Archives 2013-02-02T19:03:08Z

You left Congress to head up the NAACP, saying you felt you could do more for civil rights in that position. ‘This one is for Elijah’: Kweisi Mfume on trying to fill the seat for the deceased congressman 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

At the center of the original #OscarsSoWhite debate was “Selma,” DuVernay’s film about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The Hashtag That Changed the Oscars: An Oral History 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Her father was a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Staple Sisters' covers of contemporary pop hits became a soundtrack for the civil rights movement. Kennedy Center Honorees Announced 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, Beck again sought to play down comparisons to the slain civil rights leader. Glenn Beck plans Lincoln Memorial rally on anniversary of King's 'Dream' speech 2010-08-26T15:15:00Z

Chisholm was an impassioned, irrepressible advocate for women’s rights, civil rights and coalitions built across racial and gender lines. How white tables set with black vases serve as a reminder of the struggle for civil rights 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Issues that "Vice News Tonight" promised to focus on include politics and government policy, the climate, technology, economics, civil rights, national security and culture. Vice debuts its nightly newscast on HBO 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Should 21st century civil rights lawyers focus on the felon rights? The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

This revelatory book is about the “first civil rights movement” — the fight for Black people’s freedom and equality from the Revolutionary War to Reconstruction. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Camille Russell Love, an arts official who oversaw the Cyclorama, diversified the museum’s programming to center it more on the 19th-century black experience, and to tie that experience to Atlanta’s civil rights legacy. Atlanta’s Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Known for his civil rights work with black communities in the US, the African-American minister was assassinated 49 years ago this month. Minaj sorry for Malcolm X racist term 2014-02-14T09:55:22Z

Generating publicity in advance of trial has a history among civil rights attorneys, including Marshall, Mack says. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

In writing “Let’s Clap,” she told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she was struck that some of the same songs and stories that defined the civil rights movement of the 1960s still reverberate. Patricia McKissack, Prolific Author Who Championed Black Heroes, Dies at 72 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

As a political figure, Biden’s career has parallels to Kennedy’s — both making efforts to improve perceptions of American democracy abroad and expand civil rights. In the Biden White House, art selections come with a personal touch 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

There were also serious divides within the civil rights movement. What can we learn from 1967’s Summer of Love to help us through our current political nightmare? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Its lively rhythms and her cheeky preamble might have put her mainly white audience at ease until her lyrics betrayed her impatience with those who asked African-Americans to slow down their civil rights demands. Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Poitier made Hollywood history, by breaking from the stereotypes of bug-eyed entertainers, and American history, by appearing in films during the 1950s and 1960s that paralleled the growth of the civil rights movement. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The gesture was in protest of civil rights injustices. At MassMoCA, Art and the Struggle for Equality 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

If I was stoned or brain-damaged, I could pretend like that’s some kind of moral victory for the civil rights movement, but it’s not. Empire's state of mind: the new TV shows highlighting African Americans 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Richard M. Nixon was frightened enough of his reach, and of his support of civil rights causes, that he put Mr. Cosby on his enemies list. Bill Cosby, in Mark Whitaker’s New Biography 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

But as the civil rights movement picked up steam, he was largely silent. Sarah Colt on Why 2021 Is the Right Time for a Film About Billy Graham 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

The answer to Buckley’s second question begins with the long history of Southern Democrats using the filibuster to attack civil rights legislation. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

During the civil rights movement — our country’s most sterling model of social change — marchers sang “We Shall Overcome,” a larger-than-life gospel song that promised victory just over the horizon. Perspective | It’s a brave new world. Why is our protest music stuck in the past? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

The living icon of the civil rights movement arrived in gold glitter shoes. Fifty years later, spotlight shines on civil rights icon Amelia Boynton Robinson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

To a preteen like Mr. Margolick growing up in suburban Connecticut, King’s association with civil rights confrontations that sometimes turned violent provoked misgivings. King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

As a journalist myself, I also had learned that my cousin had been a journalist covering the civil rights movement before he turned to novel writing. Letters to the Editor 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Till’s mother insisted that his body be seen and photographed so the world would know what had befallen him, and the resulting images helped ignite the civil rights movement. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

American journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862, five months and two weeks before the delivery of the Emancipation Proclamation. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

It was a different type of civil rights struggle. “It’s very topical”: “Hidden Figures” screenwriter on her breakthrough blockbuster 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

This courage didn’t just end a plague; it revolutionized medicine and, in turn, became the indispensable moral force that led, as the plague abated, to the greatest civil rights revolution of our time. The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Born during Reconstruction, Storer survived violence and was the site of other historic moments, including contributing to the birth of the modern civil rights era. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The history in this book is similarly hopeful and fraught, recounting a “somewhat bizarre but incredibly powerful marriage between a fast-food behemoth and the fight for civil rights.” The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Beneath the stately facade of this prosperous capital city is a savage narrative of Jim Crow and Ku Klux Klan violence, right through the civil rights movement. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was written by James Weldon Johnson, a civil rights activist and leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in 1900. "Do football, not wokeness": Conservatives angered over Black national anthem sung at the Super Bowl 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Looming largest is the figure of John Chilembwe, a Black African Baptist preacher turned civil rights hero, alongside the smaller figure of his friend, the white British missionary John Chorley. This Fall, London is Awash in Sculpture 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

As a freelance photographer in the 1960s for Life and Look, the oversize magazines that brought photojournalism into American homes, Mr. Schapiro documented the struggle for civil rights. Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Did attending Howard University at the height of the civil rights movement change you? A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

The Washington performance will concentrate on songs of resistance, including the civil rights movement. Taylor Mac defies all comparisons and adjectives, and he wants you to leave his shows exhausted 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The clear audio recording includes King discussing the importance of the civil rights movement, his definition of nonviolence and his visit to Africa. David Copperfield buys, donates 1960 MLK recording 2012-09-05T21:36:13Z

Wilkerson meets with Edward Vaughn, a civil rights activist from the area who remembers a boycott of Branch’s grocery store after the killing and the woeful conditions at the hospital where Spann had been taken. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The next day, Truman wrote to his attorney general to request the formation of a presidential committee on civil rights. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

And they could not have known that night would bring forth one of the powerful civil rights movements in modern history. Does sexual behavior have to mimic sexual orientation? 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

This year's lineup is no exception, although films like "Moonlight," "Fences" and "Hidden Figures" tell black stories outside the themes of slavery and civil rights that in the past most attracted awards attention. Oscars so divided: Hollywood still struggles with race 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The time is the turbulent early years of the civil rights movement. Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington Is an Energizing Showcase 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

By the end of the 1960s, the civil rights movement had spawned an array of liberations. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z

Based on an early 20th century gospel song, it became the theme of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. New generation of music central to protest 2011-11-13T20:16:03Z

In the 1961 Freedom Rides, black and white civil rights activists rode buses together through the South in an effort to end segregation in public transportation facilities after the U.S. Civil rights leader John Lewis dies at age 80 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

Staples began singing with her father and siblings as a member of the Staple Singers, performing at civil rights marches in the 1950s and at Kennedy’s inauguration. The Kennedy Center Honors: How sweet it is to be loved by the nation 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Williamson goes on to argue that the white South didn’t go Republican because of civil rights, it went Republican because of … the New Deal. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

Here is the King assassination as imagined not only in the black and white of the civil rights movement’s era but in James Ellroy’s noir. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z

Notable exclusions included 'Inside Llewyn Davis' from the Coen brothers, family dysfunction drama 'August: Osage County' and civil rights saga 'Lee Daniels' The Butler'. '12 Years a Slave,' 'Gravity' up for Producers Guild Awards 2014-01-02T18:17:29Z

Just as I intersect with the African American community and our civil rights. Billy Porter helps examine origins of gay rights movement 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Extraordinary, Ordinary People” is instead an origins story, a minor-key memoir mostly about Ms. Rice’s upbringing in Birmingham, Ala., during the early years of the civil rights movement. Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z

Wells “challenged every type of convention,” including sexism in the civil rights community and racism in the women’s suffrage movement, Hannah-Jones said. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The concept stretches a bit thin during the period of social upheaval following JFK’s assassination, in which the civil rights and anti-war movements are only analogous. Shakespeare meets Oliver Stone in 'The Tragedy of JFK' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

In this rendition the civil rights movement is largely a call to America’s conscience that America pretty much answered.” 2010-02-13T00:22:00Z

In other words, he was not a campaigner for gay rights, but Mr. Bowie’s art complemented a larger fight for acceptance and civil rights. Was He Gay, Bisexual or Bowie? Yes 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

These are all important conversations started by feminist, LGBTQ, civil rights and public health activists, but only pop stars such as Lovato have the platforms to launch national and global conversations about them. Being a pop star once meant baring skin — now, for some artists, it’s all about emotional stripping 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

“I often say people think of black and brown bodies in slavery, and then in civil rights. And nothing in between.” Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the 1980s civil rights groups led boycotts against the Hyatt hotel chain after it terminated a black female employee for wearing cornrows. Op-Ed Contributors: When Black Hair Is Against the Rules 2014-04-30T22:57:00Z

Ms. Freeman said the tours were not intended to provide only white police officers with a better understanding of the civil rights era. Using Art to Help the Police Understand Racism 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Some see the Scottsboro trials as a precursor of the civil rights movement of later years. Real story behind Scottsboro Boys 2013-10-17T10:03:54Z

These African-American revelers are too busy with civil wrongs to care for civil rights. Theater Review: ‘Fabulous Miss Marie’ Drinks and Dances at Castillo Theater 2014-05-07T21:36:15Z

Her works were always fun, but they weren't just fun – they were a mirror, a backdrop to key issues of the 1960s: civil rights, women's empowerment and Vietnam war protests. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 8 – Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern 2012-12-12T12:12:23Z

Rich came of age in a postwar America where civil rights and antiwar movements were either getting started or were on the horizon. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

DuVernay is equally good at conveying the sense of camaraderie the civil rights movement could not have existed without. 'Selma' is a powerful telling of the MLK story 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

And, again, when looking at the makeup of the audience, my mother and I appeared to be the only Black people attending a play about Black civil rights and political action. Williamstown Theater Festival Tries to Weather the Storms 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The wish to receive a smile from someone is not a civil right. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

The civil rights activist sent a letter to Neil Portnow, the president and CEO of the Academy, and expressed his dismay over the academy's decision last April to cut its categories from 109 to 78. AP Newsbreak: Jackson enters fray over Grammy cuts 2012-01-27T16:49:17Z

The Freedom Riders' example inspired successful civil rights campaigns. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

This timely, arresting graphic memoir series, mostly completed before the congressman and civil rights leader’s death, picks up where the trilogy “March” left off. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Producing the play in 2022, O’Hara anticipates the impact of the civil rights movement in the late 20th century, a period that Baldwin lived through and wrote about. Onstage This Fall, the Enduring Friendship of Baldwin and Hansberry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Unseen by any network television crews were the quieter but just as consequential moments that shaped the civil rights era, moments in danger of being lost to history. Review: Kristen Green’s ‘Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

A proponent of nonviolent resistance and a stalwart figure in the civil rights movement, Rustin organized a profound and peaceful milestone in American history — the 1963 March on Washington. Review | A powerful lesson about the March on Washington and other best books for kids this month 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

That September the Interstate Commerce Commission delivered its order to end segregation on buses and in railway stations, and the civil rights movement had an enormous triumph. Television Review: Voices From the Buses on the Road to Civil Rights 2011-05-15T22:04:53Z

First, the case helped to establish the concept that religious views do not trump civil rights. A barbecue case that helped the cause of civil rights 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Titles such as X-Men and Black Panther broached civil rights issues and blurred moralities. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

These anthologies show the world King entered, the challenges the civil rights movement faced and what the cost of its victories were, up close. Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in books 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The book also draws together the strands of Hall’s own career as a distinguished historian of Southern labor and an activist on behalf of women and civil rights. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

"His speech says clearly that he wanted to see a nation where the federal government protects us from those and states that would not uphold our civil rights," Sharpton said. Blogger calls DC dangerous for Glenn Beck rally 2010-08-27T20:15:00Z

That meant that Tyson said no more than yes for several years, earning money not from lucrative movie roles that she was being offered, but by speaking at colleges and civil rights organizations. Cicely Tyson: A pioneer stretches her acting muscles in a new career chapter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Her viewpoint illustrates a brutal era as seen by a very specific type of African-American woman — an unsung backbone of the civil rights movement. Paperback Row 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

As a historian of civil rights and media, I’ve been fascinated by the woman at the center of this landmark television moment. TV’s first interracial kiss launched a lifelong career in activism 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

"There's diversity in nature, so why not the media? I want to thank "INSIDE EDITION" for their support in what's shaping up to be America’s last civil rights fight," Tur, 54, said. Former helicopter pilot becomes first U.S. transgender TV reporter 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

He recovered, continued his work for civil rights and was elected U.S. representative of Georgia's 5th Congressional District in 1986, a position he still holds. Just in time for Martin Luther King Day, Rep. John Lewis' books sales soar after harsh words from Donald Trump 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Oprah Winfrey is to take a role in Selma, a forthcoming film about Martin Luther King and the US civil rights movement, which she is also producing. Oprah Winfrey to play activist in Martin Luther King movie Selma 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“He is upbeat, energetic, he is strong. He looks great. This is about his civil rights, and that is what he is focusing on.” Bill Cosby’s Appeal Cites 11 ‘Errors’ by Trial Judge 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The film follows Johnson from the years just before his selection as vice president, to his battle to pass landmark civil rights legislation. Race issues, election give relevance to 'LBJ' biopic: director 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The WMF list also highlights 12 buildings in Alabama that played a role in the U.S. civil rights movement. British piers, Alabama buildings named among 25 at-risk monuments 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

“I used to go to civil rights marches, but Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles kept bumping into people,” he joked. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The neat clothes and the primly styled hair of the civil rights activists reflected that of the accepted mainstream, of the agreed-upon norm. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Virginia decision, making interracial marriage legal in all 50 states, was a landmark of civil rights legislation. Review: 'Loving' Is Both Timely and Timeless 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“More and more, the civil rights movement will become engaged in the task of organizing people into permanent groups to protect their own interests and to produce change in their behalf,” King wrote. Seeing Martin Luther King Jr. in a New Light 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

“It was a way to fund the civil rights work,” he says, part of the mandate of “trying to get justice from the underserved.” Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the earliest Pride celebrations I attended looked more like Mardi Gras parades than the civil rights marches I was raised to revere. What Does Pride Mean Now? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Friday's advert, in the form of a letter signed by more than 20 gay, civil rights and anti-violence groups, said that honoring "an artist such as Buju Banton, honors his extraordinary hateful work." 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z

“Selma,” Ava DuVernay’s film about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 civil rights marches in that small Alabama town, is making the rounds among Oscar voters, who began casting ballots this week. 'Selma' to Be Screened Free in Selma 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

The Lovings became civil rights activists by default: victims of the times, the color of their skin and a willful, wrongheaded judge in Virginia. | ?The Loving Story': ?The Loving Story,? an HBO Documentary 2012-02-14T01:46:53Z

It was 50 years ago when gospel, folk music and the civil rights movement cemented their bond on the biggest stage in America. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

Theoharis gives us the historical background, located in the civil rights movement; Khan-Cullors gives us the personal background, located in her life. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

But like other pageants, the show struggled to stay relevant with the advent of feminism and the civil rights movement. Beauty queens vie for Miss America title in Vegas 2013-01-12T09:27:41Z

From trailblazing abolitionists and scientists to artists, politicians, judges and civil rights leaders, there are numerous historical figures who have done their part to shape America into the country that it is today. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

As civil rights activists continued their fight, Sidney Poitier became the first black best actor winner. From assassinations to 9/11: How the Oscars respond to political turmoil 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

He name-checked Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, all of whom he knew, and said he hoped the show would introduce younger audiences to the civil rights movement and its accomplishments. Joe Morton of ‘Scandal’: From TV Villain to Stage Activist 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

At trial, Novak was found not guilty and then sued the city for violation of his civil rights. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Famous people these kids admired included civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, as well as soccer player Pele. Class of KidsPost: Halley Elementary sixth-graders know the three R’s plus one 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

For example, Arkansas recently passed what Oliver described as an “anti-anti-discrimination” bill to prevent any city or county within the state to extend civil rights to gay people. Watch John Oliver Argue for Stronger LGBT Civil Rights 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

For me, the New York-born child of refugees from Nazi Germany, the civil rights movement was a path to understanding my own American identity. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

And it’s a vision shared by the civil rights movement, which overcame obstacle after obstacle, and persevered in the face of daunting odds. Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Jeff Fogel, a local civil rights lawyer, told local news outlet Newsplex that it is not procedure for people accused of misdemeanors to be arrested and photographed; usually they are just summoned to court. Charlottesville, “happiest city in America” — but for whom? 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Will the Super Bowl organizers showcase Atlanta’s civil rights history, or gloss over it? Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

TV special, she sang a duet with African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Touching on issues of race and class, democracy and civil rights, and much more,” said Obama, “we believe each of these productions won’t just entertain, but will educate, connect and inspire us all.” Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to form film and TV production company 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Kelly has infiltrated the often stultified debates about art, feminism, civil rights, and anti-war protest with installations that give narrative voice to those whom such subjects most affect. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z

Yet cool portfolio films don’t explain this broken system, which is why Melissa Goodman uses words like bias, discrimination and civil rights when she talks about female directors. In Hollywood, It’s a Men’s, Men’s, Men’s World 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Peaceful protest is part of the agenda for the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s and up to today. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Still, “The Case Against 8” functions as a valuable record of the nuts-and-bolts conference room side of advocacy — an aspect of civil rights work not often seen on screen. ‘The Case Against 8,’ on Fighting a Same-Sex Marriage Ban 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The memorial is the project of Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit legal and civil rights group that represents poor defendants, including juvenile offenders and death-row inmates. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Some of us … mark the beginning of the ‘modern civil rights movement’ with the lynching of Emmett Till,” Dr. McLemore told me. The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

It contains the book “The Revolt of the Black Athlete” by the sports sociologist and civil rights advocate Dr. Harry Edwards, who also appears briefly in Ray’s office near the end of the film. ‘High Flying Bird’ Is Rich With Historical References. Here’s a Closer Look. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

“That concert video is a confession,” said Mr. Crump, who is best known as a civil rights lawyer who represented the family of George Floyd, who was killed by the police in 2020. Ed Sheeran, Accused of Copying Marvin Gaye, Testifies He Wrote His Song 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Horne also spoke at a rally that same year with another civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, just days before his assassination. Legendary singer Lena Horne dies 2010-05-10T05:35:00Z

Dozens of photographs capturing a pivotal event in the civil rights movement — the 1965 march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery — will be exhibited at the New-York Historical Society early next year. Historical Society Exhibition to Commemorate Selma-to-Montgomery March 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The events of the day — civil rights battles, the Vietnam War — gave the art-making a moral urgency. Review: Vito Acconci Invites You to Watch Him as He Watches Us 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

To learn more about this civil rights icon, visit the library’s Young Readers Center. For Rosa Parks, standing up to injustice started when she was a kid 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Michelle Browder is a Black artist and activist who runs a civil rights tour company called More Than Tours — so named, she says, because "it's an experience." The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

“I believe in states’ rights,” he said in the summer of 1980 at the Neshoba County Fair near Philadelphia, Miss., seven miles from where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. Was Reagan a Precursor to Trump? A New Documentary Says Yes 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The newspaper for the Chicano civil rights movement, La Raza, was printed in the basement. 'The Art of Protest' at Church of the Epiphany: Eastside landmark is a sanctuary for social justice 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Follett quickly equates East Germans’ loss of freedom with the situation of blacks deprived of civil rights in the American South. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Johnson knew, from King’s August 1963 March on Washington, that the Rev. Dr. was not just the eloquent voice of the civil rights movement; he was, in showbiz terms, its director and impresario. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Abraham presented a trio of works inspired by Max Roach’s 1960 album “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite,” which was released as the civil rights movement was building to its fever pitch. Abraham.In.Motion’s choreography is ambitious, yes, but rightly so

Women were not among the top leaders of any of the major civil rights organizations. Fifty years later, spotlight shines on civil rights icon Amelia Boynton Robinson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Daniels helped develop the script for the civil rights drama; Strong spent time on set. Opposites Lee Daniels, Danny Strong unite to create 'Empire' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

At the same time, Russell was also engaged in a passionate and futile defense of segregation against the African American civil rights movement. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

They arrived during a dynamic moment, when the civil rights movement, gay liberation and the women’s movement were about to change American culture utterly. Review: A Nuyorican Artist’s Career Survey: Loud, Proud and Timely 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Five weeks before “Young Mr. Lincoln” opened, the contralto Marian Anderson, who had been forbidden to perform at Constitution Hall, sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial, crystallizing the monument’s association with freedom and civil rights. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The film reminds us why his fight for civil rights still resonates today. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

He proclaimed the black Muslim organization's message at the time: racial separatism as a road to self-actualization and urged blacks to claim civil rights "by any means necessary" and referred to whites as "devils." Accidental discovery expands story of '2 Malcolms' 2012-01-31T20:27:21Z

The film is about civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. “Selma” movie to film at Alabama Capitol on Friday 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The city of 200,000 is still trying to come to terms with its identity as both the “cradle of the Confederacy” and “birthplace of the civil rights movement.” The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

At that time in the United States, the Chicano civil rights movement was blossoming, and mariachi musicians morphed from folksy troubadours to cultural heroes, “symbols of Mexican identity heightened here because of multiculturalism,” Sheehy added. Silenced by COVID, mariachi Mass returns to Tucson cathedral 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson, when speaking at the Chicago headquarters of his civil rights organization, Rainbow/PUSH, once remarked that “it takes discipline to be as ignorant as Rahm Emanuel.” The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

By the late 1960s, colleges and universities across the country were struggling to remake themselves, roiled by social revolution, the civil rights and antiwar movements and the nascent feminist advances. The Independent Women of Sweet Briar 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

A civil rights advocate, philanthropist and star right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Clemente was killed in the crash of a plane he had chartered to bring relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

He’s a civil rights pioneer who in recent years has become controversial for his outspoken views on black families and popular culture. Review: “Cosby: His Life and Times” by Mark Whitaker

Thousands of documents and photos belonging to U.S. civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks will be open to researchers at the Library of Congress starting on Wednesday, the library said. Rosa Parks papers to be open to Library of Congress researchers 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

It’s more than saving trees; it’s about how we treat each other, and that includes gender and economic equality and civil rights. Experience: I didn’t speak for 17 years 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Like Faulkner before him, Iles believes that the past — in this case, the civil rights era of the 1960s — remains eternally present. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

But much of black allegiance to the stems from its championing of civil rights and Republican efforts to appeal to white voters, said one expert on politics and race. Cain compares himself to Clarence Thomas 2011-11-05T02:16:00Z

This deeply researched account highlights the roles of previously overlooked women in the struggle for civil rights in America. New in Paperback: ‘Mantel Pieces’ and ‘Borges and Me’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Belafonte's entertainment career and his activism weren't often overtly entwined, but his stardom was central to marshaling celebrities to civil rights causes. "A song of rebellion": How Harry Belafonte's dance with fame fed a life of activism 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

We are without the physical reminder that we need each year, that in the long struggle for civil rights, we will live to see transformation. Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

In “Shape,” she is back in the civil rights era, and at NASA, too, but this time as a cleaning lady. Octavia Spencer Cracks a Few Hollywood Equations 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

“We want people to hear a robust story about Boston and the civil rights movement,” Paris Jeffries said. In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

The political events of the ’60s, especially the Vietnam War but also the period’s assassinations and civil rights protests, weakened trust in public institutions and fragmented the New Deal coalition. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

They are seeking punitive damages for civil rights violations, negligence, infliction of emotional distress and defamation. Jewish couple kicked off American Airlines flight over body odor now suing for discrimination 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“If he were looking down now, “ Mr. Morgan began, referring to the civil rights leader. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: A Timid Beginning 2011-01-18T12:08:34Z

President Donald Trump, said on Monday that calls by “the extreme left” and civil rights groups for his removal as the first headliner for a new arena in Detroit were politically motivated. Singer Kid Rock: Outcry over headlining new arena is political hatchet job 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

There’s long been a standard story of the civil rights movement. African-Americans in the New Deal 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Klein says the script covers Cooke's entire life -- 1931 to 1964 -- from childhood through his years as a gospel singer, a pop star, civil rights activist and eventually a label owner and music publisher. Sam Cooke film moving forward, script complete 2011-03-15T02:23:11Z

Danny Bakewell, a civil rights activist and business leader there, remembers him discussing the importance of keeping ownership of “Soul Train” among blacks. Don Cornelius, Host of ?Soul Train,? and His Muted Legacy 2012-03-09T23:44:45Z

An idea was born, about those who choose to participate in civil rights movements, and those who do not. Tomorrow’s Marquee Names, Now in the Making 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

But it does not end there, because the real heart of Caldwell’s story is race and civil rights. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

I assume we’re meant to believe that her relationship with Robert — and related civil rights work — changed her  completely — a personal turnaround that’s about as likely as that relationship was in the first place. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Romantic Moment That's Not 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Although these rulings pertain to different areas of civil rights law, the legal basis for these two decisions was strikingly similar. Don’t panic over Neil Gorsuch: The courts are the last hope for LGBT rights under Trump 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

“It’s the stories in history books and films about civil rights.” Mining Memories to Preserve the Past 2011-02-22T00:00:04Z

“This is an injury to his personal reputation, to his career and his soul,” said Davis, whose sister is civil rights activist Angela Davis. In and outside court, Smollett fights for reputation, career 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Written by Myla Churchill, it highlights Armstrong’s civil rights activism at the time of the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 9-15 2012-11-08T23:27:07Z

In an interview in 2009 for the Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Ms. Hardy said that most of her group’s civil rights advocacy was implicit. Evelyn Starks Hardy, Founder of the Gospel Harmonettes, Dies at 92 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

SAT Museum of History & Industry walking tour of the Central District neighborhood, a hotbed of activity in the local 1960s civil rights movement, 11 a.m. Community calendar 2011-10-12T22:42:04Z

And the attempts to portray the dawning social consciences of the singers — who became famous at the height of the civil rights movement — can feel strained. Review: An All-Star Team in the Temptations Musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

While most of these discussions center on the 20th century, Masur, an associate professor at Northwestern, skillfully establishes that “America’s first civil rights movement” started as far back as the late 18th century. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

After four decades of occupancy, and exhibitions including photos of California Jews in civil rights protests and ritual objects saved from abandoned North African synagogues, the museum is marketing its building for residential conversion. Antiques: Happy Sales: Christie?s Auctions Roy Rogers Items 2010-07-08T21:30:00Z

"Extraordinary, Ordinary People" is instead an origins story, a minor-key memoir mostly detailing Rice's upbringing in Birmingham, Ala., during the early years of the civil rights movement. 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z

Come January, Dixon will use the blues to teach the youngsters about civil rights. Mississippi embraces its blues in schools 2013-12-27T03:27:30Z

Belafonte fought against injustice long before he met Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956 and became a major force in the civil rights movement. Academy to honor Harry Belafonte for his activism 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

In the age of civil rights, that attitude helped make him, like Simone, an icon to white and black fans alike. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

She challenged the university's admissions policies for discriminating against her on the basis of race in violation of her constitutional rights and the federal civil rights laws. High Court will hear affirmative action case 2012-02-21T15:58:00Z

She was an African-American civil rights lawyer more interested, as he put it, in who he was than in what he did. ‘Life Itself,’ Reminiscences of Roger Ebert 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The film explores the FBI’s surveillance program to target Seberg in the late 1960s for her association with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal. Kristen Stewart wants to elevate Seberg beyond the haircut 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Starr lived through the civil rights movement and sees Theater 55’s work as another front in the battle for social justice. Staging ‘Hair’ With Actors Who Are Losing Theirs 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

In its ultimate decision, the Supreme Court agreed, and reiterated that “Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival.”  Gay marriage’s real pioneers 2013-03-27T21:05:00Z

In between, the show documents the influence of Marxism and the combined agitation for women’s and civil rights. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Cornel West is one of them — “a true civil rights hero,” he shouted, as the scholar stepped onto the stage. Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

"Atlanta is the birthplace of the civil rights movement," she explains. How will bars survive in a post-pandemic world? 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

“People already come to visitor centers and ask about the civil rights sites and where they can find them,” said Kevin Langston, the state’s deputy commissioner for tourism. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Known as the King of Calypso, Belafonte has spent much of his life campaigning for various causes including famine relief, education, Aids awareness and civil rights. Belafonte to receive honorary Oscar 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Stay quiet and risk alienating civil rights supporters? New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

At the now shuttered Newseum, journalists were sometimes presented more as prophets and agents of social change, like the civil rights movement, than neutral observers. Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

His first appearance in his new role will be on January 16 -- the national holiday marking the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to join TV news show 2011-12-15T22:34:56Z

By framing the cause of civil rights in words and ideas that most Americans strongly identified with, King was able to appeal to their innate patriotism. Lessons in resistance from MLK, the “conservative militant” 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

“The Great Migration happens and there is a backlash. The civil rights movement happens and there is a backlash. And then Obama happens and now we are living through that backlash.” I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Earlier, the Democratic Party platform debate in 1948 marked an opening triumph of the civil rights era. Obama gets party pressure on gay marriage 2012-04-10T01:42:00Z

That coalition broke down during the upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s, beginning with the civil rights movement, as white working-class voters began to drift away. Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The film is set during the civil rights movement in America. For His Second Act, Nnamdi Asomugha Made Preparation His Byword 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

Even his civil rights compatriots, his supposed brothers in arms, deserted him. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Famous quotes from iconic civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi are interspersed throughout the song. Hear Alicia Keys's 'We Gotta Pray' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Even now, as media corporations share statements of solidarity with black lives and profess support of civil rights, allegations about discriminatory conduct within those companies are surfacing alongside them. John Boyega spoke out against racism, but Hollywood has punished actors for that in the past 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

But she noted that there is now a civil rights museum in Birmingham, as well as the new D.C. museum. Anecdotes from the African American Museum’s grand opening 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

And its utopian dimension made it a popular medium in the United States in the context of the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z

When the museum opens Sept. 24, no major artifacts from the civil rights icon will be on display. Why no major Martin Luther King Jr. artifacts will be at the new African American museum 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

In March, he vetoed a civil rights bill and questioned whether former slaves possessed “the requisite qualifications to entitle them to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.” The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Justice Department office in Orlando, where civil rights charges were being considered. What became of Trayvon Martin’s hoodie? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

“The antiwar and civil rights movements kept us running at full capacity.” David Lance Goines, Who Shaped the Counterculture Aesthetic, Dies at 77 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

He was everywhere at once, making news as a black performer with an increasingly large and accepting white audience and as a participant in the civil rights movement. | 'Sing Your Song': ?Sing Your Song,? Documentary About Harry Belafonte - Review 2012-01-12T23:04:54Z

Why are so many British actors in this movie about the American civil rights movement? 'Selma' allows Carmen Ejogo to play Coretta Scott King a second time 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

And today we’re seeing more and more evidence that the social gains of the civil rights, and Black Power, and Obama eras are, with a vengeance, being rolled back. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The Trump administration’s plans to weaken the act, the man soberly explains to his worried-looking colleagues, is nothing less than an “attack on civil rights.” ‘City Hall’ Review: Frederick Wiseman, for the People 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

In recent years, bathrooms in schools and public spaces have been a battleground for transgender civil rights in the United States. Alaska: girl expelled for kneeing boy protesting trans student's bathroom use 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

One display case will be devoted to early-20th-century photographs, postcards and other ephemera from Lucy Nicolar, a Maine native and Penobscot tribe member who was a singer, vaudeville star and civil rights activist. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The David versus Goliath story fittingly mirrored the struggle for civil rights. Americans might love Cinco de Mayo, but few know what they’re celebrating 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was the day before Thomas’ confirmation, and she felt the future of the civil rights movement was on the line. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

That was in the early 1960s, with McCarthyism a not-so-distant memory, and the simmering anger of the civil rights movement about to explode. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

“The most threatening thing about her, from the American viewpoint, is that she refuses to treat the arts as an instrument of civil rights,” he wrote. From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The two hour jaunt focuses on the connection between Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, a period of cultural and economic flourishing, and the civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 8 Places in New York to Remember His Legacy 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

At the same time, virtually everyone in the African-American community was directly connected in some way or another to the civil rights movement. The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

Traditionally conservative, college students in the tens and, soon, hundreds of thousands also mobilized and began to stage demonstrations in favor of causes from antimilitarism to civil rights and civil lib­erties. FDR’s most important lesson: Liberal causes could still inspire activism on a grand scale 2014-04-27T13:00:00Z

Sandra Bland is dead, yet again, I see the mantra “All Lives Matter” as a retort to the new civil rights’ movement hashtag, “Black Lives Matter.” Sandra Bland is dead: It is time to erase the “All Lives Matter” mantra 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Jody Arlington wrote on NPR.org that “March” is “a fresh and sometimes shocking work” for its violence and offers an “inside look at the leaders of the civil rights movement.” ‘March’ Graphic Novel Revisits Civil Rights Movement in Rich Detail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

These were the clothes — and the bourgeois, racist and misogynistic ideals they represented — against which the hippies, Black Panthers, civil rights workers and feminists were protesting. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

These were among the restaurants that offered a satisfying meal as well as support for women and men active in the civil rights movement. At Soul Food Restaurants, Activism Was on the Menu 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

America’s old paranoia about nuclear war with the Soviet Union anticipated our unending War on Terror, an existential threat sufficient to justify any abuse of civil rights, any level of surveillance, any mechanism of exclusion. Review | Joyce Carol Oates has seen hell, and it’s 1950s Wisconsin 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Nona explains how, as a clinical psychologist working in Hawaii, she was part of a medical unit that joined the civil rights demonstration. ‘You've got to carry on that fight’: strangers swap life-changing experiences 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

His six-year tenure prioritized civil rights protections and also included controversial moments, such as his clash with Congress over the botched gun-walking program "Operation Fast and Furious." Eric Holder planning to write memoir, sources tell AP 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allen began his White House service under Truman, but altering the chronology allows Mr. Daniels and Mr. Strong to match Cecil’s career with the rise of the civil rights movement. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z

In short, stop-and-frisk policing and racial profiling, key targets of the new civil rights movement, just got a stamp of approval from the highest court in the land. America’s criminal injustice system: A private eye sheds light on the gross indignities suffered by the poor 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

At its most substantial, the play dramatizes a debate among members of the left about the importance of fighting for marriage as opposed to other civil rights issues. | 'Let Them Eat Cake': Downtown Stalwarts Flock to a Gay Wedding 2010-12-16T06:31:05Z

We are part of a civil rights movement. ‘Transparent’ is more than a TV show, creator says: It’s part of a ‘movement’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Lewis, a civil rights icon, served in the U.S. Obama in upcoming podcast credits his mother for his path 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

The tour will begin in Washington, D.C., and cover flash points of the civil rights era, including Anniston, Ala., where the bus was firebombed and Montgomery, Ala., where riders were beaten by a white mob. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z

She finds herself amongst other black artists and writers, reading her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and taking part in the civil rights movement. Maya Angelou's most notable books 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jones left City Opera in 1960 at the request of her husband, the doctor and civil rights activist George Kaufman, who asked that she spend more evenings with him and their three children. Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

At 1 p.m., grab a seat for a screening of the film “My Name is Pauli Murray,” which documents the trailblazing civil rights attorney who inspired King and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 6 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

It happened amid protests across the world responding to racist and violent policing in America, and reflects the work of many people, including concerted efforts by civil rights group Color of Change. Cops: the violent legacy of a TV show that sculpted America's view of police 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

In the 2014 edition of the reference work Contemporary Authors Online, an autobiographical statement from Ms. Moody illuminates both her departure from the civil rights movement and her comparative silence as a writer: Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The multi-talented artist was also a celebrated civil rights advocate and pioneer. Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights advocate, dies at 86 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

I told him I had gone to Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, where the three men — along with other civil rights volunteers — had trained before taking off for Mississippi. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Its importance probably dwarfs those of all the other civil rights issues of today. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

I identified more with Baker as a figure of the civil rights movement, with the lyrical and emotional content. Reimagining Josephine Baker’s Music in the Era of Black Lives Matter 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

“I’m at a time of life when I’m examining the entire journey,” he said one recent afternoon at his Manhattan home, lamenting how the dreams of the civil rights movement are far from realized. Harry Belafonte: ‘Movements Don’t Die’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

In that moment the great civil rights hero is revealed as human. Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Zinn served on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and marched for civil rights with his students, which angered Spellman’s president. 2010-01-29T05:49:00Z

This absence is particularly glaring because conservatism’s advocacy of corporate sovereignty and individual liberty is only matched by its antipathy toward civil rights for African-Americans and other communities of color. What Is a Conservative? And Other Letters to the Editor 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

The film illuminates the intensity of one man’s devotion and personal sacrifice, chronicles the birth of an economic justice movement, and tells an untold chapter in the story of civil rights in America. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

The new Change.org appeal argues that the New York air hub should be rechristened as Frederick Douglass International Airport to honor the author, orator and civil rights leader. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

The publisher says Ms. Coulter will address topics including “the Democratic Party’s coddling of violent mobs,” the “false history of civil rights given by the media” and the “truth about the original Tea Party.” ArtsBeat: Ann Coulter Follows Up 'Guilty' With 'Demonic' 2011-04-19T18:35:47Z

Sewell, 50, born just two months before those marches, was raised here, in the first generation of African Americans to benefit from the hard-fought victories of the civil rights movement. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

When published in Life – his shots of the 1963 Birmingham riots took up 11 pages – Moore's photographs brought worldwide attention to the civil rights struggle. Charles Moore 2010-03-16T14:02:00Z

Photographs of U.S. civil rights leaders recall Gandhi's abiding interest in their movement. Houston art exhibit showcases Gandhi and history of nonviolence 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Chicago media aired basic facets of the ordeal when the case was publicly revealed in a federal civil rights lawsuit, filed by us against the City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department. I was the victim of police brutality: How I survived my brush with death 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

A few weeks later, he travelled to Washington, D.C., to lobby for civil rights for Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-American Artist Who Went to the Camps to Help 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

He was also a first-hand observer of the civil rights movement. ‘True Grit’ novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

And I used to say Muhammad Ali fought the government in a decade dedicated to, supposedly, civil rights. Ken Burns on his latest, "Muhammad Ali": "What's so interesting is what an avatar of love he was" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

The perjury charges came after Spiker, serving 15 years in prison for burglary, filed multiple federal civil rights complaints accusing guards of assault and inadequate medical treatment, court documents say. Man who asked white supremacist to kill judge gets 60 years 2014-04-03T12:30:00Z

Brown often spoke about women’s rights and civil rights for black people. Who helped women get the vote? Meet three important suffragists. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Throughout its history, but particularly during the civil rights movement, Highlander faced hostility and repression from local and national right-wing politicians, and was briefly shut down in 1961 for violating state segregation laws. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Yet, both Hamer and Baker have been largely left out of the lexicon of the civil rights history we know today. 'Cops only tackled me and my friend': why a dark skin tone makes activism dangerous 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Dr. Maya Angelou was best known as a poet, author and civil rights activist. Go Inside the Making of the First Documentary About Maya Angelou 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Bissell will discuss his directorial debut and Henson will share the timely relevance of this pivotal moment in civil rights history. 6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

He went on to earn a doctorate in political science at the University of North Carolina, where he was active in the civil rights movement. Ken Bode, Erudite ‘Washington Week’ Host on PBS, Dies at 83 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“He’s right up there with any civil rights leader of our generation,” Mr. Jackson said. Don Cornelius, Host of ?Soul Train,? and His Muted Legacy 2012-03-09T23:44:45Z

Here, Johnson’s use is fairly literal, describing government actions that he saw as not only politically advisable — passing a civil rights bill and a medical-assistance plan for the elderly — but also morally justified. How ‘politically correct’ went from compliment to insult 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Snead, who is black, argued that some civil rights leaders oppose the casual use of the word in music and slang. ArtsBeat: Connecticut School Will Perform Wilson Play Despite Official's Objection 2011-01-20T16:21:29Z

“The Embrace,” now a permanent fixture in Boston Common, sits on the 1965 Freedom Plaza, which honors 69 local civil rights leaders from the 1950s to the 1970s. In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

By the time King, who was seen as the national leader of the civil rights movement, focused his sights on Selma in 1965, local activists — including Lewis — were already working in the trenches. Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Write a rallying cry for a new civil rights movement. New band of the day ? No 956: Young Buffalo 2011-01-28T16:22:16Z

But in addition to the many hats he juggled as an entertainer — song and dance man, actor, impressionist, raconteur — Davis became a civil rights activist. Sammy Davis Jr.’s Knotty Journey, on Film and in Song 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Alice Green, the executive director of the Center for Law and Justice, a civil rights organization in Albany, said that the statue’s removal was “a relief.” Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

Dr. Tyson, who was 11 in 1970, chronicles the struggles that his father, Vernon, a Methodist minister, faced in advocating civil rights progress to a conservative parish. 2010-02-13T00:22:00Z

Concise, metaphorical and still arresting, it remains Magnum's most requested image of the civil rights era. Snaps by Elliott Erwitt – review 2013-04-01T08:00:02Z

She excelled at school, studied English at Howard University and did her graduate studies at Cornell -- all before the civil rights movement. Happy birthday, Toni Morrison! 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Lyndon Baines Johnson may have a bellicose reputation, but his record on civil rights, ending poverty and gun control makes his presidency a high water mark in US liberalism. The 75 films we're most excited about in 2016 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

While he later became close to Cesar Chavez, the farm workers advocate, and other more radical civil rights leaders, he never invited King to his home. King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the civil rights movement, Cory couldn’t dream. Taraji P. Henson on Jussie Smollett, ‘What Men Want’ and the presidential election 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

At noon, educators from the Jackie Robinson Museum will lead an exploration of Robinson’s lifelong commitment to civil rights. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

But it was in the ’60s, when there were a lot of major things happening — the civil rights movement was underway — that it popped up. 'A practical solution to a horrific problem': When even Los Angeles needed havens for black drivers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In 1964 — at the very moment when the civil rights movement was transforming America and when West Africans were feeling the hopeful beginnings of political independence — the Lawrences touched down in Lagos. A Tribute to Black Artists Could Signal a Change for Museums 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The story sparked an idea for Aydin: Soon, he persuaded Lewis to join him in co-writing a graphic memoir series about his civil rights experiences. He’s a Hill staffer for Rep. John Lewis by day — and an award-winning graphic novelist by night 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Along the way, she transformed the role of First Lady into a bully pulpit from which she could fight for civil rights and greater workplace opportunities for women. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nelson introduces a free screening of his latest documentary, “Freedom Riders,” which chronicles the perilous journey of civil rights workers challenging Jim Crow laws in the South in 1961. Weekend Miser: Sword Swallowers and Beer Swiggers 2010-09-30T21:19:00Z

Was he a protester or civil rights activist like other models of leadership featured here: Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony and Gandhi? Museum Review: Lincoln?s Legacy at Expanded Ford?s Theater Complex 2012-02-10T13:00:00Z

“The youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights, Janis Joplin, Reagan and on, this was an artist who continued to respond to the present,” says the exhibition’s co-curator, Achim Borchardt-Hume. Ripe for reassessment 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

This occurred the day after the one day a week people of color — including Latinos — had been allowed their token access, and lasted at least from the early 1900s into the early civil rights period. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Here in 1945, black homeowners hired prominent civil rights lawyer Loren Miller to sue for the right to own Sugar Hill homes. Getty and city of L.A. launch website mapping historic places 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Alongside Mr. Andersen’s guitar is the grease-stained napkin on which he first scrawled the chorus for his song about civil rights marchers, “Thirsty Boots.” Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Drama professor Marietta Hedges stars in Catherine Filloux’s one-woman show, which tells the story of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist from Detroit who supported marchers in Alabama and was murdered. Director Julie Taymor to receive prestigious ‘Will’ Award 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Cornsilk is Cherokee, and a self-taught civil rights advocate and genealogist. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

District Court, criticizing Session's record on racial issues and civil rights in Alabama. Elizabeth Warren has a book coming in April. Its title? 'This Fight Is Our Fight' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

In that interview he also claimed that blacks were happier before the civil rights movement. Duck Dynasty Star Isn't Sorry for Anti-Gay Remarks 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

The awards are presented annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the civil rights group's members select the winners. '12 Years a Slave' wins big at NAACP Image Awards 2014-02-23T16:30:36Z

Automobiles and the freedom to travel were very important for civil rights. "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The life of the poet, writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou — also sometimes a performer, and more — is revisited in this documentary, which explores Angelou’s many talents. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Art of Political Murder’ and CBS Specials 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Knight said she’s been working for civil rights and singing the anthem since she was a little girl. Gladys Knight on why she’ll sing the anthem at Super Bowl 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The fight against climate change is "as morally compulsory as the battles for civil rights or against totalitarianism", he wrote in a recent edition of The End of Nature. Writing in green 2010-12-03T14:37:00Z

To this day, the longest speaking filibuster belongs to the notoriously racist Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who spoke against a civil rights bill in 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes straight. John Oliver: filibusters make US Senate 'a giant non-functioning roadblock' 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

This National Book Award-winning biography, decades in the making, clears up factual disputes and re-creates fly-on-the-wall details that add invaluably to our understanding of the civil rights activist’s life. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Among Avedon's other works was a series of images of the civil rights movement. Richard Avedon photos headed to Paris auction 2010-07-02T15:46:00Z

Laura Murphy, a civil rights expert who has directed the Washington legislative office for the American Civil Liberties Union and is now a senior adviser to Airbnb, wrote the report. Black Travelers Say Home-Share Hosts Discriminate, and a New Airbnb Report Agrees 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

We see scenes of the appalling degradation endured by black American communities at the time of the work's composition, and of the struggles and achievements of the civil rights movement. Porgy and Bess 2010-08-16T16:12:00Z

Each man spent much of the '60s grappling with the civil rights, antiwar and feminist movements but rarely in dialogue with each other. William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer: An odd-couple relationship 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Though civil rights politics were never far from the dinner table, his parents had other, equally formative impacts on him. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

Nixon — a protégé of A. Philip Randolph, a socialist agitator, writer, and union organizer who founded the Brotherhood with the dual purpose of promoting workers’ rights and civil rights — was a gifted organizer and strategist. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Noxon explores the history of the civil rights movement in this illustrated guide to its iconic moments and most important figures, from Rosa Parks to Bayard Rustin. New & Noteworthy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Observers might have expected this monument to bourbon-and-shotguns manhood to crumble when faced with the rise of feminism, flower power and civil rights in 1960s. The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

You look at 1965, which is the sort of peak of the civil rights movement. We’re at peak “white racial apocalypse”: The enduring toxic myths fueling Obama backlash, “all lives matter” and Donald Trump 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The conflict is reflected in the wide range of best picture Oscar hopefuls and an awards season marked by fiery outbursts from Hollywood A-listers on immigration, civil rights and the rhetoric of U.S. Escape with 'La La Land' or time to get real? Oscars face choice 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

It also chronicles their role as stalwarts of the civil rights movement who navigated the sometimes contentious lines dividing different parts of the broader black freedom struggle. Portrait of a Marriage, Onstage and at the Barricades 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

“The Second Sex,” by Simone de Beauvoir, was in translation, and the civil rights movement was gaining pace. Chanting Crowds and Camo Chic 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

The career award will go to Simeon Booker, 97, who reported on the civil rights movement for more than 50 years for Jet magazine. Post reporter wins Polk award for series on ‘settlements’ industry 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Whitfield Hyman, a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in Fort Smith, said a commercial business like a music venue is typically given less constitutional protection than a religious gathering in terms of speech. Concert to Test Whether America Is Ready to Rock Again 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

White liberals failed because they championed, or were associated with, civil rights. Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

We used to think that the civil rights that were won are for forever, but they are not. Revisiting a Midcentury Haven for Cross-Dressing Men 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

The contributions of African American cooks went beyond the kitchen, particularly when the cooks advocated for civil rights. In the White House kitchen, hiding in plain sight

He toured the world, performing and collecting folk songs, in 1963, and returned to serenade civil rights advocates, who had made a rallying song of his “We Shall Overcome.” Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z

Paired with strategic outreach to black churches, Jones’s admixture of Holy Rolling and civil rights rhetoric quickly assembled a progressive and integrated congregation. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The agency kept tabs on things like who was attending civil rights meetings and working on voter registration, sometimes recruiting black informers. Television Review: ‘Spies of Mississippi,’ About Segregation’s Defenders 2014-02-09T21:31:13Z

To help fill in those gaps, Salon contacted Anne Wilde, co-founder of Principle Voices, an advocacy group for the civil rights of polygamists. Secrets of the polygamists 2010-10-16T21:01:00Z

It is one thing for historians to break down all the civil rights victories won through the hardest of struggles over decades of sacrifice, terrorism and death. In Netflix's stirring "Amend," stars anguish over the injustices that led to the 14th Amendment 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Both parties at the time had liberal and conservative wings, and in each of those parties it was the liberal wing that was right on civil rights. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

“One Life: Marian Anderson” explores the life of the renowned contralto and how she became an icon of the civil rights movement. In the #MeToo Era, Museums Celebrate Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

But when you come down to it, it's basic civil rights and basic demands of privacy. Jude Law interview: 'I was an optimist. A champion of the human spirit' 2011-07-30T21:00:02Z

And he recited a quote about him from a 1995 essay on civil rights historiography by Charles M. Payne: “Like the cop in ‘Dragnet,’ Garrow sticks to ‘the facts, ma’am, just the facts.” His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

How do you deal with issues of civil rights? The smart science of "Contagion" 2011-09-03T17:01:00Z

Capitol with ones of the country music legend and of civil rights leader Daisy Bates. Arkansas to honor country legend Johnny Cash with holiday 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

In Roger Nero’s case, which was in essence, a civil rights case, Nero attempted to sue in US Courts over his right to vote in a tribal election. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

Unionisation, the vote for women, civil rights, gay rights and universal health care – these enfranchisements came after decades of struggle, never overnight, and rarely as a result of a single violent action. American theatre: the wonder years? 2010-04-07T13:29:00Z

Often old and dated, the books skewed heavily toward distilling information, facts and figures about slavery and the civil rights era. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

As surely as the sun rises, a point arrives in the course of every civil rights movement when well-meaning white people climb aboard and take it mainstream. Black lives, white eyes: what's different this time is we're locked down and can't excuse it away 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Crump and the Harrold family also called for a civil rights investigation into the Arlo Hotel “for its implicit bias” in its treatment of the teen. Hotel confrontation involving Black teen under investigation 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

“We’re not doing civil rights,” one of the maids remarks, a statement that is true of the movie as a whole. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

I always felt that the civil rights movement started as soon as there was an Afro-American in the United States. Thaddeus Mosley Never Stopped Working 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for a seat on the Supreme Court, just five days after civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall announced that he was retiring after 24 years. ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

That afternoon I paced around the house, made a donation to a civil rights advocacy group, read increasingly desperate pleas for justice online and added my voice to them. Spending My Tenderness on Animals 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

And there’s a reason why whites and blacks alike can herald Jackie Robinson as a civil rights hero yet can be so split on Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem. BlacKkKlansman: the grim topicality of Spike Lee's 70s-set KKK film 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

They were never prosecuted, and the incident played an early role in ushering in the civil rights movement. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ and ‘Strangers’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

That included a Revolutionary War ancestor and a mother who marched for civil rights, but no slave owner. Ben Affleck sorry he had 'Finding Your Roots' conceal slave-owning ancestor 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Still, they did both: Their four hardscrabble albums helped expand the form’s purview, not only with personnel but also with the politics of unions, feminism and civil rights. Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

The amendment, which guarantees equal protection, was the legal basis of the civil rights campaign and is the theme for the center’s annual Constitution Day celebration, Sept. 17. Learning About the Civil Rights Era Through Travel 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

A study done of Trump voters in 10 swing states asked, "Should transgender people have the same civil rights as everyone else?" "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

James Foreman Jr. — a Yale Law School professor and one-time public defender in Washington, D.C. — is a child of the civil rights movement. New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Garrow noted that the night the civil rights leader died, Robert Kennedy also spoke movingly about his legacy. This powerful image perfectly captures how divided America was when MLK died 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Both were active in civil rights issues and efforts to promote the cause of blacks in the entertainment industry and elsewhere. Daughter: Actress Ruby Dee dead at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

One of the reasons this movie feels fresh is its frankness about the tactics required to make civil rights progress. Director Ava DuVernay populates 'Selma' with real people and events 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

But when the black community needed every bit of help they could get in the civil rights era, where was he? Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

It was up against nine other films in contention for best-produced film on Saturday, including female-led comedy "Bridesmaids," civil rights drama "The Help," and Steven Spielberg's epic tale "War Horse." "The Artist" wins over producers at Guild Awards 2012-01-22T08:24:30Z

It supports a range of projects, from human and civil rights to medical research and wildlife conservation. Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m still dealing with the effects of segregation and the civil rights movement and all kinds of topics around the issue of race,” she said of the era in which she was born. We All Need a Gammy in Our Lives Right Now 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

The notable exclusions were two films that opened Dec. 25, Angelina Jolie's second film as director, the World War Two survival story "Unbroken," and the civil rights drama "Selma." 'Birdman,' 'Boyhood,' small films vie for Producers Guild Award 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

In their quest to return home again, they unwittingly became civil rights icons. ‘Tell the judge I love my wife’: The brilliant simplicity of ‘Loving’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

“Kennedy and King towered over the national landscape, and their interactions defined the early years of the civil rights era,” he writes. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Keeping a diary was “particularly impossible,” said Irina S. Ostrovskaya, the senior archivist at Memorial, the Russian civil rights organization founded to establish a record of the victims of Soviet political repression. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

There’s a widely held view that it was a brash, fierce urban impulse replacing the gentler, rural-based civil rights movement. In ‘Black Power!,’ Art’s Political Punch and Populist Reach 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Du Bois lectured and Julian Bond planned civil rights actions. H.B.C.U. Homecomings Are Canceled, but Students and Alumni Will Feast Anyway 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

He's famous for his striking fashion images, celebrity portraits and other photographs on subjects ranging from the civil rights movement to war protests. NYC gallery representing Richard Avedon works 2011-04-26T17:04:08Z

But whether it signals a long-lasting shift remains to be seen, said Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change. This is a landmark year for diversity at the Oscars. Why did it take nearly a century? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

As a 31-year-old, McConnell was a moderate: in favor of civil rights bills since the ’60s, a believer that money in politics was a “cancer,” and a seeker of union support. Mitch McConnell doesn’t care what you think. He just wants to win. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Fey and Poehler also brought up Hollywood's sexism, ageism, the civil rights movement and marital woes when referring to this year's crop of nominees. Watch Tina Fey, Amy Poeher open Golden Globes, play 'Who'd You Rather' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Instead, it emphasizes Mr. Margolick’s conclusion that King and Kennedy are “linked as no other black man and white man in the history of civil rights have ever been.” King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Others, like "To Kill a Mockingbird," winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, were ushered into the classroom by current events — in the case of Lee's book, the civil rights movement. Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

A civil rights lawyer and longtime advocate for marriage equality, Sims is still best known as the college football player who came out publicly in the 2000s. Civilities: 8 LGBT names to know in 2016 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Orchestrated and well-funded attacks on our civil rights are anything but civil. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The exhibition, titled "You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970", explores the era-defining impact of the period on modern life, touching on music, civil rights, consumerism, multiculturalism and more. 'You Say You Want a Revolution?' 1960s exhibition opens in London 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

It was published in 1960 shortly after the dawn of the U.S. civil rights movement and became required reading in many American schools. 50 years on, new book from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

In 1962, he headed South and into the thick of the civil rights movement, producing some of its most lasting images. At the Queens Museum, Home and the World 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Besides Obama, speakers will include civil rights leaders Julian Bond, Rep. Obama, Aretha to headline MLK monument dedication 2011-10-12T01:16:04Z

You see that between Nina the classical performer and Nina the pop performer, or Nina the civil rights activist and Nina the battered wife. Director of Nina Simone documentary: “We were in our edit room when the events of Ferguson were unfolding. It reminds you that the struggle is ongoing” 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Was this Woolworth’s sign part of the backdrop for a famed civil rights sit-in? PBS’s ‘History Detectives’ Devotes Episodes to Single Cases 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

He had been attending civil rights rallies, and told his father that he would have protested rather than go to the camps. George Takei Is Still Guiding the Ship 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

He describes his childhood as immersed in the civil rights and black arts movements, surrounded by poets, musicians and artists. Kwame Alexander on winning the Newbery Award: 'I'm going to keep it real with you' 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

His preferred topics include slavery, the civil rights movement in the era of the Black Panthers, business history and Harry S. Truman. From Red Lobster to Running Some of New York’s Marquee Restaurants 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

As part of this new partnership, “Escaping the KKK” will now feature in-show content between segments, which will be provided by civil rights leaders, to grant context to the images within the each episode. A&E changes “Generation KKK” title to “Escaping the KKK” in wake of backlash 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Dunye explains firsthand how their art and lives interpreted the defining events of that era as they pertain to civil rights. Eclectic docuseries "Pride" walks viewers through queer American history one decade at a time 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition says the civil rights leader will join fellow clergy, elected officials, attorneys and community activists for a Monday morning rally at the Chicago Temple supporting Foxx. Rev. Jackson plans rally in support of Chicago prosecutor 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

But the movies so frequently favor black stories from white perspectives that placing a crucial moment of the civil rights movement in the hands of black leadership constituted revolt. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her work champions Black culture, civil rights, feminism and peace. Sonia Sanchez Wins the Gish Prize 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

These 1970s references evoke the fertile time when black women pulled from the discourses of civil rights and feminism to assert their own identities, interests and desires. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Many of his supporters were blue-collar whites, part of what would be famously termed a civil rights “backlash” growing in the North and thriving on fears that blacks would overrun white schools and neighborhoods. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

Many songs were adopted as anthems for the 1960s civil rights movement in the US. Readers recommend: songs about leftwing politics – results 2013-04-18T10:56:59Z

Person, living or dead, you admire most: Mom earned three votes, just beating “brother” and civil rights activist Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. May Class of KidsPost: Second-graders from Waverly Elementary in Ellicott City 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Through an array of traditional and contemporary styles, the program traces links between South Africa’s anti-apartheid and America’s civil rights movements, not neglecting the present. 15 Summer Dance Festivals, Saratoga to Vail 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

At the time, Anderson’s debut was seen as a breakthrough for opera and a benchmark in the progress of civil rights in America. Critic?s Notebook: Sony Classical Releases 4 New Historic Met Opera CDs 2012-01-21T01:25:23Z

Afterward, they will answer questions, and audience members will participate in a role-playing workshop inspired by the play, presented in commemoration of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights march. Spare Times Listings for Children for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, civil rights groups, led by the A.C.L.U., asked Amazon to stop selling its image recognition technology, called Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies. Taylor Swift Said to Use Facial Recognition to Identify Stalkers 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

He was instrumental in mobilizing for civil rights with his participation in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, his nonviolent protest in Selma, Ala., and his speech from his March on Washington. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Whitten was born in Alabama, was active in the civil rights movement there, and in 1959, fled the South, never to return. Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

When, in 1966, Kennedy visited Chief Albert Luthuli, the South African civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner living in internal exile, he is thought to have delivered a letter from King. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

In 1968 he was asked to co-host Black Journal, which was first screened two months after the assassination of the American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. US film-maker William Greaves dies 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

“As far as I’m concerned,” Lewis later wrote, this all but forgotten episode was “the turning point of the civil rights movement.” Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Respectable appearance was a mandatory part of the civil rights struggle,” he writes. We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Even many of those “who claim sympathy with BLM’s purpose have used the civil rights movement to decry their tactics,” Theoharis writes in her elegant introduction, her rage kept at a controlled simmer. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

But it really came to a head in a class where one of the teachers read Revelations to apply to the civil right protests that were going on. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Facing long odds, he wins a breathtakingly close race based on promises to find a way to bring his state and the nation closer to the civil rights movement’s ideal of the “Beloved Community.” Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Oyelowo could be a factor, though the Globes completely ignored the civil rights drama "The Butler" last year. Glenn Whipp's Golden Globe nomination predictions 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights” is a valuable addition to the historical record of Alabama’s role as the battleground state of the civil rights revolution. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Give her a great song, though, and she soars – she turns the 1967 civil rights anthem I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free into a gritty, uplifting showstopper. Emeli Sandé 2012-11-13T15:21:45Z

The newspaper once carried ads for slaves and chronicled the news from both the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The end comes for another local newspaper, 165 years after it began 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

In September, the University of Maryland will host a national conference on civil rights and health disparities among minority populations to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays 2013-02-28T07:16:06Z

The New York attorney general has opened a civil rights investigation into the Weinstein Company, which fired Weinstein shortly after the first accusations of sexual misconduct became public. Former production assistant becomes latest Harvey Weinstein accuser 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

In the address, JFK spoke of civil rights as not just a legal issue but also, as Lorraine said, a moral one. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

The King siblings are shareholders and board members of the estate, which they formed in 1995 with King's widow, Coretta Scott King, to control rights to the civil rights leaders' speeches, books and other works. 2010-01-19T20:42:00Z

She said the story the nation tells of African-Americans’ struggle for civil rights is a Christian one, so African-Americans who reject religion are seen as turning their backs on their history. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

She was a respected community leader who made a difficult choice to serve as a figurehead in the civil rights movement, and spent years of her life to build it. How To Talk to Your Kids About the Contributions of African American Women 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The Harvard historian said it led him to wonder why a civil rights movement was necessary a century after the Emancipation Proclamation. Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

And then there she was, leading more than 100 people in songs that ran the gamut from the slave tradition to gospel to the civil rights movement. A serendipitous life: Ysaye Barnwell and the healing power of music 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Image Awards were voted on by members of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, which is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S. 'Selma' wins outstanding film of 2014 at NAACP Image Awards 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Although race is a dominant and charged theme in hip hop music, treading crudely on African-American abolitionists and civil rights figures is still seen as taboo. Def Jam's Simmons apologizes for Harriet Tubman sex parody 2013-08-15T20:08:53Z

“Wow people, this is the civil rights struggle of our generation,” host Trevor Noah said on Monday night’s broadcast. Trevor Noah calls Ann Coulter “airplane Rosa Parks” after Delta flap 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gregory is both an immensely important stand-up comic and a prominent civil rights activist. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

A year ago only one nominee, civil rights drama "The Help," reached the $100-million domestic sales mark, according to the Box Office Mojo website. Best Picture contenders produce $2 billion box office bounty 2013-02-21T12:06:13Z

Angelou is hosting an hour-long syndicated radio special on the civil rights era that will air throughout this month on about 200 public radio stations across the country. Maya Angelou hosts Black History Month special 2012-02-02T07:32:19Z

He goes as far as to say it “could have derailed an emerging civil rights movement in Britain”. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Some historians point to their publication as the spark that ignited the civil rights movement. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z

Gay and civil rights groups offer teachers tips - from ignoring the holidays altogether to using them to teach lessons about diverse families. Teaching tolerance to children when Father's Day is Fathers' Day 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The Illustrated News, a grassroots circular published by civil rights leaders, carried a two-page story accompanied by detailed pictures of community members picketing the police headquarters. The untold stories of women in the 1967 Detroit rebellion and its aftermath 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Those activities include issuing guidance documents regarding consumer protection or civil rights rules or statutes. Perspective | Airline fines have fallen to historic lows. That could be bad news for travelers. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Why was organized protest, except for the civil rights movement, so paltry in the United States in 1964? Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

The civil rights movement involved not only adults, but children, too. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

By the mid-1850s, Spain seemed all but forgotten as El Clamor Público in Los Angeles advocated the civil rights of Mexicans and decried the “lynchocracy” imposed by vigilantes in Gold Rush California. ‘One Nation with News for All’: Newseum looks at Ethnic media in America

The Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel in Jackson, Miss., where civil rights activists gathered in the 1960s. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

The early civil rights years and the traumatic, nomadic 1960s were the years of her youth, and she did a lot of living fast. Art Review: Carrie Mae Weems Charts the Black Experience in Photographs 2014-01-23T23:42:31Z

Scholarship on “race and the law” originally explored two questions that emerged from the civil rights movement. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

That’s when he heard about the end of slavery during the Civil War followed by virtually nothing about race relations until the civil rights movement in the middle of the 20th century. Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Though it is a memorial to two towering Black civil rights leaders, both of whom died on the same day this year — July 17 — “The Baptism” isn’t interested in particulars. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

He also handled the Beatles' first New York appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1964, and a civil rights fund-raiser by Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne, also at Carnegie Hall. Hollywood publicist Gene Shefrin dead at 90 2011-04-11T20:45:38Z

Monday is MLK Day, a national holiday celebrating Dr. King’s birthday and his leadership in the civil rights movement. Oprah Winfrey And Other 'Selma' Stars Will March in Alabama on MLK Day 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

And Stroud was definitely not on board when the birth of the civil rights movement led Simone to radically change her priorities. 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' resonates marvelously 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Avedon had a lifelong commitment to the civil rights struggle, enriched by a close friendship with James Baldwin that dated back to their high school days. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

It made sense then that the activists in the civil rights movement were, visually, the antithesis of hippies. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

But last week, the New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit filed against the company to halt the sale saying, in part, that Glasser’s role was “unacceptable”. Ousted Weinstein Company executive David Glasser plans to sue for $85m 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Osa is — crunchier,” said one civil rights lawyer from Washington, D.C., as Sasha and another girl her age excused themselves to look at the bats hanging from the bamboo light fixtures. Explorer : In Search of ‘Wild’ Costa Rica 2014-04-10T20:09:26Z

Allen acknowledged that Pride not only broke through stereotypes, but he did so during the civil rights era. Jimmie Allen rubs elbows with trailblazer Charley Pride 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Still, the absence of "Selma," which tackles three critical months in the civil rights movement in 1965, raised questions about the movie's award prospects. DGA nods have their share of surprises 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

While the conservative website Big League Politics said it was “a historic civil rights march by President Donald Trump’s supporters,” it was in a distinct minority. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

Her socially and politically conscious verse is influenced by the feminist and civil rights movements. Harryette Mullen wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize 2010-04-02T18:25:00Z

The pictures, printed in Jet magazine, are credited with bringing many people into the civil rights movement, among them Dr. King. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

He said, “It was popularized in the 1970s by civil rights opponents.” Its Top Curator Gone, SFMOMA Reviews Its Record on Race 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

They wrote histories of the Pullman train porters, Negro leagues baseball and the civil rights movement. Fredrick L. McKissack, Children’s Book Author, Dies at 73 2013-05-09T22:41:33Z

On Martin Luther King Day this year, he says, he explained to his son how African-Americans had been treated in the fight for civil rights. Michael Peña: ‘Scientology made me a better actor’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“He said, ‘I thought things like that only happened when African-Americans were beaten up in the civil rights movement.’ ” ‘Brothers on the Line,’ Sasha Reuther’s Film on the U.A.W. 2012-10-09T22:34:03Z

She also became a major figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a fixture at protests like the Selma to Montgomery March. Should Zoe Saldana Play Nina Simone? Some Say No 2012-09-12T19:45:18Z

Nearly a week before the ban was struck down, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel cited the state's spotty civil rights history as he declared his support for marriage equality. History shades Arkansas' gay marriage debate 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

He went on to embrace music, dance, theater and comedy, and broke ground as a wildly popular black entertainer as the civil rights movement picked up steam. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ and ‘The Breaker Upperers’ 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

They gathered for the opening of the March on Washington Film Festival, which focuses largely on the midcentury struggle for civil rights and is intended as much to kindle activism as to showcase new films. Stirring Others to Action With Civil Rights Films 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Virginia, the civil rights case in which the U.S. Sidney Poitier, considered Hollywood's first Black matinee idol, has died at 84 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Today’s civil rights movement has struggled with public rifts — younger protesters chafing against older activists over tactics. Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Along these lines it’s worth pointing out that both this emblem of whiteness and this very white movie were created right in the middle of the civil rights movement. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Belafonte, who died on Tuesday, was more than an entertainer; his primary focus from the late 1950s until the end of his life was civil rights. Harry Belafonte: A Life in Photos 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Even as Mr. Belafonte was in the prime of his entertainment career, he was intently focused on activism and civil rights. Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Stephen Somerstein was a 24-year-old college student when he photographed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march that changed the course of civil rights in the United States. 'Freedom Journey' photo exhibit recalls 1965 civil rights march 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

“The Water Man” doesn’t delve into American history or civil rights struggles. Perspective | Audiences love family films. Hollywood might be catching on. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Williams, who received a standing ovation, dedicated the award to “real organizers all over the country,” including activists, civil rights attorneys, struggling parents and students. Jesse Williams Gives Powerful BET Awards Speech About Racism 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

That letter was written by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest L.G.B.T. civil rights organization, and Equality North Carolina, the state organization working to secure equal rights for L.G.B.T. North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

At a time when the civil rights and feminist movements were still fighting to win equality in everyday settings, Chisholm’s declared candidacy was considered to be symbolic at best. TV to soothe election panic: “The Contenders” offers historical perspective, “The Bunker” gently skewers the process 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The success of the civil rights movement so altered daily life that some filmmakers, like blind men with the proverbial elephant, grab onto a tail or truck. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

Gayle plaintiffs and many other civil rights activists, sat in the second row at the unveiling. Alabama Unveils Statue of Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

That generation is the whole generation of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and all the others who survived this part of the civil rights movement and then were decimated. With "Silver Dollar Road," Raoul Peck travels to the heart of Black land loss through one family 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

Sara Pratt, a civil rights attorney who regularly comes to weekly dinners to offer guidance and support, was among those who showed up. They opened their home to dozens of young people. Then he learned he could give one more thing: A kidney. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

More subtly, Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird” was a folksy, foot-tapping, luminous paean to the civil rights movement. Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

As one historical account of the civil rights era for children puts it: Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The casting decision is roundly criticized during a time of civil rights upheaval. 200 years of authenticity (or lack thereof) in casting 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

"The criticism of Hollywood has been in the past that if you are making a black film, it's either going to be about slavery or civil rights," Hunt said. From 'Moonlight' to 'Fences,' movie awards season bursts with color 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

She used to listen to her father talk about the civil rights era and felt as if she’d missed everything, she told the audience. Anna Deavere Smith returns to Baltimore, with a mission 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

More than 65,000 accused collaborators ended up standing trial in a special court system that stripped some of certain civil rights, sent some to prison and condemned others to death. Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Both parents embraced left-wing politics and raised their children in a secular home emphasizing music and civil rights. Milt Okun, music impresario who spanned pop, folk and opera, dies at 92 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Many of the political reforms enacted from the 1930s through the 1960s—particularly the expansion of the welfare state and the passage of civil rights legislation—attempted to expand equal rights to all people. The rise and fall of “family values”: How “religious freedom” became the rallying cry of the Christian right 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

And whatever anyone’s take on the civil rights movement as such, the South remains largely conservative, and is still beset by problems like racial injustice and income inequality. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

He referenced his mother and her work as a campus civil rights activist in the 1960s: Had it not been for the local journalists who covered it, change may never have come. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

When Pride introduced himself as a country singer, Foley asked, “Is this something pertaining to civil rights?” What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Library of Congress will be the temporary home of a collection of more than 1,500 items relating to the civil rights activist Rosa Parks and recently purchased by the philanthropist Howard G. Buffett. Rosa Parks Collection Going to Library of Congress 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

A monument to journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was unveiled Wednesday in Chicago. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Taking up this charge, four new picture books by award-winning authors and illustrators introduce slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights movement to a new generation. Four children's books introduce African American experiences 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Jackson’s death became a part of civil rights history — but it remains a searing family tragedy. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

He gained considerable fame and success but stopped performing to work for social justice in the civil rights movement. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

The very anti-women policies of this administration; the roll back of civil rights for minorities, the Latinos and how they’ve been attacked. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Naming continued to inspire into the civil rights era. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kaufman’s “London Mosquitoes” movingly suggests that the advances in civil rights for gay men and women have come too late for many long-united partners. | 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays': ?Standing on Ceremony? at Minetta Lane Theater - Review 2011-11-14T03:01:01Z

The video poem looks at civil rights with this sweeping approach, weaving protest footage from the 1960s with that from 2020. In images and words of rebirth, a poignant tribute to civil rights giants John Lewis and C.T. Vivian 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Instead they identify as researchers and activists who view Jackson as a civil rights case. Michael Jackson Fans Are Tenacious. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Has Them Poised for Battle. 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The bench is in the grounds of Liberty City’s African Heritage arts centre, a prominent neighbourhood landmark, built with all the civil rights optimism of 1975. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

He rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Selma” explores the intricate dynamics of the multifaceted civil rights movement – the cautious ministers and the young firebrands. “The plain people who became powerful”: Appreciating MLK anew, between “Selma” & Selma 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Marching for civil rights as a college student in Alabama, white racists spat the word at him. High school play seizes power from the N-word 2011-04-30T16:16:06Z

Thankfully, Common took his moment in the sun to deliver an articulate, thoughtful speech that related the historic civil rights film to what’s happening today. What the 2015 Golden Globes Mean for This Year's Oscar Race 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Change was sorely needed, as the civil rights, antiwar, and women’s movements demonstrated. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

He also published books of poetry and photography and championed progressive causes, including civil rights and Cesar Chavez’s efforts on behalf of immigrant farm workers. Leonard Nimoy, a pop culture force as Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 83 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Young Cromwell’s first big test came when he joined a production of Waiting for Godot as it toured the segregated south at the height of the civil rights movement. James Cromwell: 'In jail, everyone recognises my face' 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Before taking the part, Harrelson said he didn't like Johnson because of his role in escalating the Vietnam war, but noted as president he seemed to care about advancing civil rights legislation. Race issues, election give relevance to 'LBJ' biopic: director 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“But I remind people often, if you look historically at civil rights in this country, the biggest gains were always preceded by moments of horrible experiences, setbacks and challenges.” The arc of this civil rights leader’s life has always bent toward justice 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

He argued that the civil rights movement was just the latest in a long American tradition that was both grounded in those ideals and sought to make them more authentic. Lessons in resistance from MLK, the “conservative militant” 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

The civil rights drama made the best picture cut, but a best actor nomination for David Oyelowo proved elusive. Oscars 2015: Snubs and surprises 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

We do know that George’s creators were witty and kind, lived modestly and lent their voices to causes they believed in, including the civil rights movement. Curious George turns 75: Why the monkey and the Man in the Yellow Hat endure 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Other images depict the African American influence on agriculture, cooking and civil rights over the years. The African American Museum cafe gets off to a solid start feeding a tough crowd 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Earnest scholars describe biblical stories and related matters much as they would narrate a history of the civil rights movement or a world war, with a studied urgency meant to convey credibility and importance. More Networks Jumping on the Biblical Bandwagon 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

In December civil rights groups, including the Austin N.A.A.C.P., unveiled a plaque in East Austin memorializing three African-Americans who were lynched in the area in 1894. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Sadly, civil rights only won the pennant that year,” Colbert said. Recap: Stephen Colbert's CBS 'Late Show' Debut 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

In a telephone interview, Professor Forman, a son of the civil rights leader James Forman, praised the book’s “spectacular” success in raising awareness of the issue. Michelle Alexander?s ?New Jim Crow? Raises Drug Law Debates 2012-03-06T23:26:55Z

Portraits of civil rights heroes fill the rotunda ceiling; an illuminated sculpture pulses and glows; gospel songs play. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

"The Justice Department is committed to enforcing federal civil rights laws to ensure that all religious groups can freely exercise their religious beliefs." "Criminalizing the Samaritan": Why cities across the US are making it illegal to feed the homeless 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Their attorney was a young civil rights lawyer with a spectacular afro and a fearsome demeanor named Eleanor Holmes Norton — now the District’s longtime congressional representative. How a fed-up group of ‘Good Girls’ beat the ‘Mad Men’-era sexists 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

History books will remember him, rightly, as a civil rights leader, a confidant to presidents, a power broker at the highest levels. How Vernon Jordan became a one-of-a-kind Washington presence 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

To idealists of the 21st century, it may seem that on many social, economic and ethical fronts the country has come to what seems a futureless halt, just as the museum’s civil rights story does. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The speech catalyzed the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, with a coalition of civil rights groups and Mr. Baron Cohen wrangling celebrities. Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mayer follows the money as it funds countless battles against taxes, environmental regulation, labor unions, scientific research and civil rights efforts. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

She was literally teaching that the civil rights movement and then the Black Power movement, that we were in the final days and these Black activists were basically demons. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

“From a civil rights litigation perspective, Sam really sparked my interest,” Ms. Shrewsbury said. At Britney Spears’s Hearing, This Twitter Feed Scooped the World 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Randolph himself was among the most important – and most often forgotten – civil rights leaders. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

When, in the 1960s, a Black civil rights activist sought to “integrate” a pool by swimming a lap, Wilkerson tells us, it was subsequently drained and entirely refilled to appease its white users. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

While he never stopped making music as long as his health allowed, Mr. Otis focused much of his attention in the 1960s on politics and the civil rights movement. Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues Musician, Dies at 90 2012-01-20T01:42:36Z

But the juror’s probation sentences were both terminated and her civil rights restored, according to Thursday’s filing by prosecutors. Prosecutors argue against new Cellini trial 2011-11-18T06:12:00Z

But after falling under Roach's influence, Lincoln turned her back on that image, casting herself instead as a civil rights advocate, dressing in African-inspired clothing and hairstyles, and making music with a political tone. Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dies at age 80 in NY 2010-08-15T01:14:00Z

He is asking the court to determine that New 42 violated the federal civil rights act as well as local human rights laws, and to award him an unspecified amount of damages. New 42 Worker Files Bias Lawsuit Over Diversity Training 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Lewis’ books recount his work in civil rights movement — participation that included having his skull fractured in the Bloody Sunday march in Alabama. American Library Assn.'s 2017 award winners include 'March: Book Three' by Rep. John Lewis 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Rather than working with the civil rights protesters to make the Delta equitable for all individuals, the White leaders of the Delta disinvested from its schools and recreational programs, filling the public pools with concrete. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

In this excerpt from the book, Margolick examines how the Birmingham campaign pushed the Kennedy administration to introduce its bill on civil rights. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

And whereas the civil rights part of our center is a black-box theatrical setup, we wanted the human rights part to be a daylight museum and use light in different ways. Finding Inspiration for a Civil Rights Museum 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Clearly, it was a break from Carson’s show; the iconic late night host wasn’t preaching civil rights night after night, he was an entertainer. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

With the support of that storied institution, she returned to law school, this time at Howard University, and then began her career as a civil rights attorney in earnest. The arc of this civil rights leader’s life has always bent toward justice 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. Dee's activism brought her in close contact with some of the titans of the civil rights movement, from King to entertainer Harry Belafonte. Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist, dies at 91

Ms. Franklin belonged to the gospel church; she belonged to the pop public; she belonged to the civil rights and women’s rights movements; she belonged, emphatically, to Detroit. In a Hometown Send-Off, Aretha Franklin Belongs to Everyone 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

Critics, she argues, are right to be a bit flummoxed that although Friedan was writing during the civil rights movement, she barely mentions African American women. Does “The Feminine Mystique” still matter? 2013-02-13T14:00:00Z

That event puts new pressure on the marriage of a religious leader in the civil rights movement and his wife, a writer who thinks it may be time to move elsewhere. It May Be Home, but It’s No Sanctuary 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scheide became active in local civil rights groups while living in Princeton in the early 1950s. William H. Scheide, 100, Philanthropist, Is Dead 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

The prosecutor’s civil rights bureau issued the subpoena, which is also seeking records concerning how complaints were handled and resulting settlements. Weinstein Company under investigation by New York attorney general 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

The city sought qualified immunity for its officers, which shields them from civil litigation unless they had been shown to violate someone's civil rights – exactly the claim raised by Novak. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Suggestions about changing times and the polarizing effects of the civil rights movement seem insufficient when it comes to explaining such a radical change, and the reader, like Scout, cannot help feeling baffled and distressed. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Otis became a disc jockey for Los Angeles radio station KFOX, and was also heavily involved in politics and the civil rights movement. "Willie and the Hand Jive" singer Johnny Otis dies at 90 2012-01-20T00:27:44Z

Also formative was an experience he had at 16: A cousin took him to a civil rights rally in San Diego organized by the Congress of Racial Equality. Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Instead, she highlights her relationships with fellow activists like Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee nation, and Flo Kennedy, the flamboyant civil rights lawyer and Steinem's speaking partner for many years. Gloria Steinem revs up memories and travels in 'My Life On the Road' memoir 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“He was probably shrewd to operate behind the scenes on civil rights legislation, although his invisible hand was often taken for detachment,” the books says. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z

Basically, the whole thing's an extended metaphor for the civil rights movement, with a three-foot creature called Dobby standing in for Rosa Parks. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z

Nor, Grell says, does the New York civil rights action make a Rico prosecution any more likely. Canadian actor's suit against Weinstein and assistant must proceed, judge rules 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z

In the early 1970s of "Sunset," the U.S. is involved in a war in a distant country and struggling with the civil rights movement back home. 'Sunset': An engaging game about war's toll on a housekeeper 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Aside from civil rights activism and the free -speech events in Berkeley, politically oriented protest among young people was also relatively uncommon in late 1964. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

But for many years he was best known for his public fight to secure medical treatment, acceptance and civil rights for people with AIDS. Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Written by Myla Churchill and closing this weekend, it highlights Armstrong’s civil rights activism at the time of the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 16-22 2012-11-15T23:10:06Z

Events this June, including a civil rights city tour, film festival and gala, will celebrate Mr. Evers’s life. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z

Bernstein, who was vocal in his support of civil rights, testified before the commission. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z

Now race had made itself known to us, my mum did not hold back: my siblings and I would watch films about the civil rights struggle, slavery and apartheid. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

But he vociferously contends that his approach was more effective, and holds up the disciplined and orderly 1963 March on Washington for civil rights as a comparison. Review: In Memoir, Barney Frank Presses for a Results-Oriented Philosophy 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Two of her images show how, following the civil rights movement, Cherry Grove became more welcoming to Black people and Latinas from the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Cherry Grove, Where Gay New Yorkers Became ‘Their Real Selves’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Belafonte, second from left, in Chicago in 1966 with, from left, Sidney Poitier, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and the civil rights activist Al Raby. Harry Belafonte: A Life in Photos 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Often, when the civil rights leader would see her for the first time in a while, she said, he would ask her to open her hand. From this Selma house, Martin Luther King made civil rights history 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The bride’s father is a personal trainer at Runway, a gym in Brasilia, and works part-time as a civil rights lawyer in private practice, also in Brasilia. Rafaella Francisco, Christian Iannucci 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Good Trouble toggles between Lewis’s work in the cauldron of the civil rights movement of the early 1960s and on the road in 2018, as he campaigned for Democratic candidates in the midterm elections. 'We've made too much progress to slow down': tracking John Lewis's long fight 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Although we encountered references to today’s racial struggles, such as a “White Lies Matter” sign in a French Quarter window, we largely experienced civil rights as a museum artifact. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

I’m particularly fascinated by the week in February, 1968 that entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte hosted the Tonight Show in place of Johnny Carson. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

This was also the dawn of the civil rights era. She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The concept album takes black history from the slave and sharecropping days through the onset of the civil rights moment and joins it with the struggle in apartheid-racked South Africa. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

In this hourlong performance for families, the baritone Anthony Brown will portray Robeson, the African-American actor and vocalist who was also a civil rights activist. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

In deeply honest and intense essays, Shehadeh, a civil rights lawyer and the author of “Palestinian Walks,” who now lives in Ramallah, describes his psychological and physical crossings into Israel. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

He helped underwrite the civil rights movement, paying for freedom rides. Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

His father owned the Marsalis Motel in suburban New Orleans and was involved in the civil rights movement. Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Warren lost and gained 30 pounds to play civil rights catalyst Mamie Till-Mobley — whose son Emmett Till was brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South — in the upcoming ABC series “Women of the Movement.” The AP names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Her mother, originally an Irish Catholic New Yorker, was active in the civil rights movement. Rebecca Solnit: California dreaming 2013-06-29T07:00:45Z

With the outcry from Till's relatives and other civil rights activists growing, Epic Records cut Wayne's verse from the "authorised" version of Future's track and label boss LA Reid rang the family to apologise. Lil Wayne backtracks from his 'offensive' Emmett Till lyric 2013-05-02T12:37:36Z

Virginia decision, making interracial marriage legal in all 50 states, was a landmark for civil rights. The Rights of the Heart, Interpreted With Beauty by Loving 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Still, it's ridiculous that people are getting upset about "Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign"? Lou Reed on Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes' 2013-07-03T15:48:19Z

Under a Republican president, trans people would be poised to have even more of their basic fundamental civil rights taken away. For my transgender daughter, there are only 18 States of America 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

While those arguments are focused on whether to tear down or remove monuments, other government officials, nonprofit groups and entrepreneurs have been more quietly constructing new ways to focus on the history of civil rights. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Lewis had read it as a teenager, and it inspired him to join the civil rights movement. He’s a Hill staffer for Rep. John Lewis by day — and an award-winning graphic novelist by night 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

In fact, the fight for American independence was much more complex, not unlike the civil rights movement that would follow more than 170 years later. ‘Revolutionary Summer’: America on the edge of change 2013-07-04T00:18:56Z

Active in the 1960s civil rights movement, Kniss performed at benefits for a range of causes and played during the first celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday. Peter, Paul and Mary bassist Dick Kniss dies at 74 2012-01-27T20:22:10Z

Officers eventually found guilty for violations of King’s civil rights in federal court in 1993. Rodney King’s life is portrayed in a one-man play at Wooly Mammoth Theatre

"He wasn't really engaged in the civil rights movement oddly enough," he says. Frears: Ali film 'isn't about Ali' 2013-05-18T15:56:12Z

Other civil rights material at the Library of Congress includes the papers of Thurgood Marshall, Bayard Rustin and Roy Wilkins, and the records of the National Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. Rosa Parks Collection Going to Library of Congress 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

These are words that may be hard for Americans to hear, but they are just as important as the civil rights hero’s more palatable utterances. The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z

After Andrea rejects him — clearly she sees no place for a civil rights lawyer anymore — Dale begins a lonely journey to convince someone, anyone, that killing the young boy is wrong. The Walking Dead Watch: Judge, Jury, Executioner 2012-03-05T13:45:16Z

He presided over a diverse writers’ room of seven people, discussing civil rights, “blacktivism” and cultural identity. Directors From Sundance on What Happened Next 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

“It’s not that difficult to remember a time when rallies for equality and civil rights were considered offensive and unpopular,” Silverman said. Perspective | To fight bigotry and hate, don’t muzzle it. There’s a better way. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

With the gain of civil rights, there was a loss of that particular community and culture. Finding Inspiration for a Civil Rights Museum 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Although Mr. Somerstein sold a few photographs to the news media and collectors — he ultimately became a physicist — none were exhibited until a 2010 civil rights exhibition at the San Francisco Art Exchange. 54 Miles And 5 Cameras 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s, Birmingham, Ala., and Memphis became known as landmark sites in the civil rights struggle. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

After a brief marriage and a stint in a traveling production of “Porgy and Bess,” she moved to New York City, where she became involved in Harlem literary circles and civil rights campaigns. How Maya Angelou became the voice of America 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Photos of a civil rights march, taken in Alabama in 1965, include portraits of the Reverend Martin Luther King. 'Lost' Hopper prints go on show 2012-09-20T09:30:25Z

Alabama is ready to welcome an estimated 30,000 visitors to Selma in March for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Anniversaries, From Rio to Selma 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

"Motown opened the emotional door to the civil rights movement," he told Reuters. Broadway Motown musical features civil rights, love story 2013-02-07T21:40:22Z

I was active in the civil rights movement and had joined the Black Panthers. Chaka Khan: 'A man needs to bring something big to the table' 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon, in the Chapel of St. James, the composer and conductor Alice Parker will lead an hour of communal singing to honor the civil rights leader. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 8 Places in New York to Remember His Legacy 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the civil rights movement claimed legislative victory after victory. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Legend has focused much of his charitable work on improving education, which he calls "a civil rights issue for our time." Singer headlines P&G anti-dropout promotion 2011-06-30T15:03:15Z

“I am not interested in any more books about the civil rights movement in East Jesus anyway,” the Legend decreed. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Kurtz has also tried to establish the connection by arguing that some of the same people who endorse polygamy also endorse same-sex marriage and that they invoke the same “civil rights” language in both cases. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z

Then he brought on a 19-year-old Al Sharpton, already a civil rights activist, who presented Brown with an award for his music. Don Cornelius took 'Soul Train' on pioneering trip 2012-02-01T20:32:12Z

Hawkins told the students that in the decades between the failed U.N. petition and today’s street protests, U.S. civil rights organizations remained disconnected from the global human rights infrastructure. A new mission for Amnesty International: Bringing human rights home

Mr. Garrow found factoids aplenty, about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s infamous surveillance of Dr. King — and, most controversially, about alleged sexual misconduct by the civil rights leader. His Martin Luther King Biography Was a Classic. His Latest King Piece Is Causing a Furor. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

The characters talk a bit more about civil rights, Vietnam, and class conflict onstage. Theater review: ‘Dirty Dancing — the Classic Story on Stage’ at National Theatre

The details of the case resemble those of many similar events that took place across the region at the height of the civil rights movement. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z

Riot Runs for some interesting civil rights history. Running tours offer a way to see the sights and stay in shape

Now, it’s not just those with evident physical or sensory disabilities who say they are part of a disability civil rights movement, but younger people and those with invisible disabilities, too. Disability Pride: The High Expectations of a New Generation 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

With more than 200 items on display, two new films and 10 audiovisual stations with news and documentary footage, this exhibition highlights the first major civil rights law passed by Congress after Reconstruction. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction

"His offensive reference to a revered civil rights icon does not reflect the values of our brand." PepsiCo drops rapper Lil Wayne over controversial lyric 2013-05-03T23:42:14Z

Offscreen, she also stood for what was right, which meant fighting for civil rights, not performing to segregated crowds on a U.S.O. tour, not a particularly popular move at the time. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Leovy suggests, six decades after the start of the civil rights movement, that the “impunity for the murder of black men” remains America’s great and largely ignored race problem. Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside,’ a South Los Angeles Murder Case 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s a ritual of mourning, a reminder of Baker’s racial struggles and civil rights activism, and of the era of police brutality and Black Lives Matter in which we currently live. Reimagining Josephine Baker’s Music in the Era of Black Lives Matter 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Ossie Davis, the actor and civil rights activist, called the film “one of the most important things I have seen on the screen in a long time.” Don Hunstein, Who Photographed Great Musicians, Dies at 88 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and civil rights activist, offered to pay for Ms. Conrad’s education at another university if she wished to transfer. Barbara Smith Conrad, singer who overcame discrimination in celebrated operatic career, dies at 79 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Noah was the host people turned in 2020 when civil rights protests revealed how blinkered white Americans are in matters of racial inequity. Trevor Noah made "The Daily Show" his own — and better 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Hampton, a British playwright and director, is writing a new play for the Guthrie, "Appomattox," which ranges from the Civil War's end to the 1960s civil rights era. Guthrie's 50th season mix of classic, contemporary 2012-04-17T01:22:14Z

His bespectacled face and slight frame have become synonymous with peaceful resistance and civil rights movements around the world. The Many Faces of Gandhi 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

During this “first civil rights movement” — the fight for Black people’s freedom and equality from the Revolutionary War to Reconstruction — states’ rights were mostly what antislavery activists had to work with. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

She recently shot "For Justice," a CBS drama pilot directed by "Selma's" Ava DuVernay, in which she plays an assistant attorney general working in the civil rights division of the Justice Department. Phylicia Rashad on directing 'Immediate Family' at Mark Taper Forum 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The complex lives that populate his jailhouse journey from segregation through civil rights braid the movement’s gains and limitations into a red thread tracing the current crisis of race and criminal justice. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

And last fall at Theater J, “Queens Girl in the World,” about a girl coming of age during the civil rights movement, was her first one-woman show. After 21 years, this D.C. actress is enjoying a ‘season of firsts’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The US Department of Justice has told North Carolina the new regime violates federal civil rights law and has given the state until Monday to abandon the legislation. How to use a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Even more unsettling was the department’s widespread censorship of works discussing civil rights issues, and works critical of prison conditions or corruption. Battling censorship behind bars 2013-05-07T13:00:00Z

A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now. Review | In the galleries: A focus on the intersection of art and movement 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

That song, that film clip, those screaming girls were as inspiring to me as any of the great freedom songs of the civil rights era. I mocked the Beatles, and then they saved me 2011-04-20T22:01:00Z

The conservative American notion that people with far better healthcare, civil rights laws and gun control “hate our freedom” is a wishful imperialist delusion. Delusional, prudish, selfish, violent: This is how Americans compare to the rest of the world 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

And I did research not just on the war and larger politics, but on things like Bloomington and its neighborhoods and civil rights history. "Stranger Things" gets a girl gang in the prequel novel "Suspicious Minds" 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

He opposed the civil rights movement, the women’s liberation movement, and the gay rights movement, and he celebrated Joseph McCarthy, supply side economics, and the war in Vietnam. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Lewis, who has represented Atlanta on Capitol Hill for nearly three decades, was a leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and is an important character in “Selma,” which was released on Christmas. Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Congress was wrestling with the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower would sign in the fall. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The civil rights warriors did not dress in battle gear. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

There is no disputing that Vivian waited a long time to begin “It’s in the Action,” a concise yet well-documented volume of his work as an activist, civil rights worker, writer and preacher. Review | In C.T. Vivian’s memoir, a civil rights icon looks back at his life as a ‘nonviolent warrior’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

It's this civil rights drama's equivalent of the deli scene in "When Harry Met Sally" -- a comic high point. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z

The notion that the challenges faced by Black women in romance and marriage constitute an issue of “civil rights” might grate at first. Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Its newsroom was home to one of my heroes, Lucile Bluford, who worked as a reporter and editor covering civil rights issues. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Malcolm X” pays homage to the civil rights leader through stacked drums, staggered piano chords and Singer’s billowing saxophone solo in a meditative mix of jazz and soul — a rightful nod to the historical figure. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

A funeral photograph of his brutalized corpse that appeared in Jet magazine is often cited as the spark that ignited the civil rights movement. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the Woodruff family experienced difficult times, with some white families avoiding the store, Mary Woodruff said. Visitors to this Virginia pie shop want more than dessert. They want to meet the 103-year-old pie maker. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Belafonte has been at the vanguard of the U.S. civil rights movement, anti-apartheid efforts in South Africa and ending gang violence on the streets of Los Angeles. Sundance debuts with Harry Belafonte documentary 2011-01-21T05:23:40Z

Theirs was a kind of royal wedding, the beginning of one of the most notable partnerships of the civil rights era and beyond. After Two Tragedies, a Love to Bring Down Barriers 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Johnson’s story is not just about one woman’s success but about the entire 20th century, including changing roles of women in the workforce, the civil rights movement and the “Space Race.” Review | Katherine Johnson of ‘Hidden Figures’ tells her story in her own words 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

No longer just a concert, it had become a civil rights battlefield. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

“I hate to say this about the Republican establishment,” Mr. Lord said, “but their view of civil rights is to tip the black waiter five bucks at the country club.” On CNN, Debating Trump and the Ku Klux Klan. Really. 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

It charts the family’s origins in gospel music; their drift into folk, soul and pop; and the reverberations of their music during the civil rights era. Ben Lerner’s '10:04,' Leslie Jamison's 'Empathy Exams' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

This history revisits the hostile reception that greeted civil rights activists half a century ago. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Yet she doesn’t call on, say, politicians who have voted against civil rights measures for their thoughts on the history of race in the United States. Review: ‘13TH,’ the Journey From Shackles to Prison Bars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

There was really only one American political party with a solid record on civil rights in the first half of the 20th century, and it was the American Communist Party. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

To be sure, it’s only natural that a civil rights tour would find its heart in the South, in the epic and well-chronicled battles for equal access to public education, public transportation and voting rights. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

The agreement was not triggered by any complaint from theatergoers, but rather by proactive enforcement of the Americans with Disability Act by the attorney general's civil rights bureau. ArtsBeat: Agreement to Ease Ticket Buying for Disabled at Theater Row 2013-01-14T19:09:30Z

As war in the game intensifies, the player hears Burnes compare the fighting in South America to the civil rights movement in the U.S. 'Sunset': An engaging game about war's toll on a housekeeper 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

I hear the same tone when old film is run of the 1960s Atlanta civil rights leaders, and of Martin Luther King in particular. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z

As a result of his death, a number of them became active in their communities, and they became part of the civil rights movement. Elaine Nichols 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Blues for Mama” was the rare protest song that could galvanize multiple social justice movements — civil rights, women’s liberation and Black Power — at once. Why Nina Simone Was Always Ahead of Her Time 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

Before his death from cancer, the civil rights leader and Georgia congressman reflected on his life and dispensed this advice for future generations on justice, faith and the pandemic. Newly Published, From Octogenarian Marathoners to a Haunted Southern Plantation Wedding 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The faculty fueled our enthusiasm with weekly visits from civil rights leaders. Thomas Mann, Guilty Pleasures and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Any valid synthesis of the civil rights movement awaits many specific histories. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

But, having made progress on that, it now becomes clear that the agenda of academia and the contemporary "civil rights" movement is to de-legitimize America's institutions, ideals, and leaders. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Think about Selma, a small town in Alabama that was central to the cause of nonviolent civil rights protesters in the 1960s. Ferguson is now a symbol, not a place

As an adult, Alexander works as the "Assistant Commissioner for the City of New York Commission on Human Opportunity" in the mayor's office, where he defends the civil rights of indigent minorities. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

And then there are people who experienced it, in the civil rights era, as a symbol of hate or at least a segregation, anti-integration and white supremacy symbol. The Confederate Flag’s stubborn meaning, beyond heritage vs. hate: “I’m a tough individual, you can’t get me down, you can’t tell me what to do” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

At best, this for-the-children rhetoric is passive, saying, “Well, somehow, things — the environment, racism, civil rights, the pay gap — will get better down the line.” Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z

After America’s First Reconstruction was attacked by the lynch mobs of white supremacists in the 1870s, it took nearly a hundred years for a Second Reconstruction to emerge in the civil rights movement. The power of “we”: Martin Luther King, the March on Washington, and the birth of Moral Mondays 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

I mentioned, in passing, Marian Anderson, whose 1939 open-air concert at the memorial helped launch the modern civil rights movement. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Since law school I’ve admired her intelligence, her energy, her generous spirit, and particularly in recent years, her civil rights work. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Basically the history of the McCarthy era — the paranoia, the agency’s sinister yet amateur machinations, local politics, informants, the suppression of civil rights — is thrown at you as raw, inchoate data, as enveloping, exasperating minutia. Review: Ingenious Versatility in the Whitney’s ‘Open Plan’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Leaners’ community engagement went beyond music, with George raising money for civil rights demonstrators and Ernie working with the Chicago Urban League. Unearthing a Jackson 5 gem from Chicago label One-derful!

And Alice Walker’s 1976 “Meridian,” about a young woman’s introduction to the civil rights movement, takes place at the fictitious Saxon College, modeled on Spelman, which Walker attended for two years. H.B.C.U.s Have a Spirit All Their Own. Pop Culture Is Paying Attention. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

After viewing the show, participants will make paper figures and create messages for them to carry in a civil rights march. For Children Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

By focusing on the last year of King's life, Tavis Smiley brings the civil rights leader's humanity, imperfections, passions and political struggles into focus. Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in books 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

On 125th Street, he stopped to read the text on a monument to the politician and civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Jay Ellis Comes Home to Harlem 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

During these years she was active in civil rights efforts in Mississippi, working with the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

And it seemed like the ’60s were a time when people were embracing civil rights and crossing social boundaries and of course the music was great. Critic?s Notebook: Heads Bowed in Grateful Memory 2011-03-16T22:13:38Z

An infamous audio recording of children wailing while held at one facility last year was obtained by a civil rights attorney and published by ProPublica. Migrant children are suffering at the border. But reporters are kept away from the story. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

The general gist of it is, these detectives, seven, eight detectives were basically violating the civil rights of folks that they "suspected" of having guns on them, but basically were profiling egregiously. HBO's "The Slow Hustle" director: "We're all carrying some level of mass grief as Black people" 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Oblivious to the Battle Raging Outside There was no question that “Mad Men” would get around to the civil rights movement. The Tv Watch: ?Mad Men? Opens its Fifth Season on AMC 2012-03-22T21:40:54Z

He said war and peace, and civil rights, are the issues that drive him most and explain his enthusiasm for Obama. Matthews raises profile during campaign 2012-12-27T14:04:08Z

Emma Stone, 23, took the trophies for both movie actress and favorite comedy actress for her roles in civil rights era film "The Help" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love." "Harry Potter", Katy Perry big People's Choice winners 2012-01-12T04:41:55Z

Boomers and the Silents before them also made tremendous strides in the arenas of civil rights and women's equality and secured protections for reproductive autonomy. Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

“What is a bad cripple? It is a person such as myself with an obvious disability who is well aware of their civil rights,” he wrote. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Kennedy was not an early, enthusiastic civil rights advocate but he becomes that. Once that issue took hold of his heart, it didn’t die. We are all the better for that work, for that legacy.” Bobby Kennedy: Netflix documentary shines a light on his relevance 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Kennedy was not a leader in civil rights. How Martin Luther King Persuaded John Kennedy to Support the Civil Rights Cause 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z