The church has played a vital role in America's civil rights struggle. It was the spiritual home to MLK, to the generations that shaped the vision of the late civil rights leader, and now to Sen. Raphael Warnock.
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The influential civil rights group got its start following a wave of brutal white-led violence against Black people in Springfield, Illinois.
A set of efforts that registered 800,000 new voters since 2018 may have been the key to Georgia turning blue in a presidential election for the first time since 1992.
Despite the attention paid by the press when two Black hip-hop artists signaled their support for Donald Trump, they do not represent swelling enthusiasm for Trump from young, Black men.
The U.S. presidential election is again serving as a symptom and a symbol of a troubled society. Whatever the outcome, history suggests anything but a quick resolution to deeply rooted problems.
Some calls to resolve racial inequities in the US have raised an idea with roots more than a century old: community land trusts to assemble property for the benefit of Black Americans.
Protests of Confederate flags and monuments have grown since 2015, but resistance is not new. African Americans have been protesting against Confederate monuments since they were erected.
In current demonstrations, there are echos of a civil rights era catchphrase: People are 'sick and tired of being sick and tired.'
Though he had a speech impediment and came from humble beginnings, John Lewis went on to become a giant of the civil rights movement.
Thanks to some serendipity and fortuitous timing, the images emerging out of Selma had a uniquely powerful effect on the nation.
When African Americans press 'record' to film police brutality, they are challenging a nation not to look away.
Some lament that today's anti-racism movement has no charismatic leaders like the civil rights era did. Such comparisons don't reflect the real history of the struggle for Black equality in the US.
Scholars who study policing explain what they have found that could help reduce police prejudice and violence.
By filming everyday acts of racism, today's Black Lives Matters activists are using an old strategy in a new media age.
To foreigners, he was a fellow traveler who recognized the plight of the oppressed.
A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
Dorothy Cotton never publicly spoke about her intimate relationship with King. But no woman – not even King's wife – was closer to the civil rights icon during the last years of his life.
Publication was justified of information from the FBI that Martin Luther King Jr. witnessed and celebrated a woman’s rape, writes a historian, who warns the FBI had long wanted to destroy King.
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn't stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
From spirituals about the trials of slavery to the fight for civil rights and the modern rhythms of swing music, Duke Ellington told a story about black life that was both beautiful and complex.
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Associate Professor of Geography Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Professor of English, North Carolina State University
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University School of Public Affairs
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Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of History, Edge Hill University
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Assistant Professor of International Education, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
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Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
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Associate Professor of US and International History, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of American History, University of Sussex
