Photographs of Civil Rights protesters at Martin Luther King Jr.’s first national address
By TIMOTHYNA DUNCAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM It was the historic Civil Rights march that brought Martin Luther King Jr. into the nation’s spotlight. But the tiny …
29 Disturbing Pictures Of American Life Under Jim Crow
Photo: Getty Images By Gabriel H. Sanchez, BuzzFeed // More at BuzzFeed Until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, what became …
Black History Month special film presentation Feb. 28 at Palladium
ST. PETERSBURG – The City of St. Petersburg will help mark Black History Month with a special film presentation about the bloodiest campaign of the entire …
Civil rights legend headlines Legacy Week
Bernard Lafayette, left, fielded questions about his civil rights career and the state of black men today at USFSP with event organizer Rev. J.C. Pritchett …
North of Dixie: US Civil rights photos capture largely forgotten black activism in Selma, Birmingham
BY Reporter for The Daily Mail When it comes to the civil rights movement, many associate the violence, discrimination and police brutality against black …
It’s still a pig
Dear Editor, In 2008 shortly after President Obama’s election to office, “The Leadership Conference,” a coalition of civil rights organizations, prepared …
Civil Rights and the Media
BY SKYLA LUCKEY, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Florida Holocaust Museum held a panel discussion called Civil Rights and the Media Thurs., Sept. 17. …
White attorney calls on feds to reopen 1940 murder case of NAACP member
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Three quarters of a century after an NAACP activist was murdered for registering black voters in Tennessee, a retired white attorney with …
Jim Gregory’s civil rights odyssey
BY PUNEET SANDHU Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Cathedral Church of St. Peter, 140 Fourth St. N., held an event Sun., June 14 for award-winning …
We need a new voting-rights movement
BY: PENIEL E. JOSEPH This time next year, be prepared for rousing speeches, earnest commemorations and moving celebrations that mark the 50th anniversary of …
Why more black Americans should run for elected office
BY: THEODORE R. JOHNSON III On Labor Day in Milwaukee, President Barack Obama gave a rousing speech to supporters in which he accused Republicans of playing …
50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964
BY MARC H. MORIAL, NNPA Columnist “The purpose of the law is simple…those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling booths, in the …
The lynching of Eric Garner
BY WALTER FIELDS, NNPA Columnist It was one of the most difficult scenes in Spike Lee’s classic movie “Do the Right Thing,” the brutal strangulation of …
Tony Dungy Unfairly Attacked
BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA Columnist The homosexual mafia has struck again. This time, however, they have picked the wrong target. Beloved former Tampa Bay and …
MLK’s case for reparations included disadvantaged whites
What does white America owe black America? To even broach that question 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 seems straight-out wacky. Did not the …
Grandmother viciously beaten by cop on LA freeway sues
A grandmother caught on video being viciously beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer alongside a Los Angeles freeway has filed a civil rights lawsuit. …
Dispatches from Freedom Summer: The ghosts of Greenwood
Black and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters march on the boardwalk at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. BY …
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964′s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and …