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…
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29 Disturbing Pictures Of American Life Under Jim Crow
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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…
Civil rights legend headlines Legacy Week
Bernard Lafayette, left, fielded questions about his civil rights career and the state of…
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…
It’s still a pig
Dear Editor, In 2008 shortly after President Obama’s election to office, “The…
Civil Rights and the Media
BY SKYLA LUCKEY, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Florida Holocaust Museum held a…
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…
Jim Gregory’s civil rights odyssey
BY PUNEET SANDHU Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Cathedral Church of St. Peter, 140…
We need a new voting-rights movement
BY: PENIEL E. JOSEPH This time next year, be prepared for rousing speeches, earnest…
Why more black Americans should run for elected office
BY: THEODORE R. JOHNSON III On Labor Day in Milwaukee, President Barack Obama gave a…
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…
The lynching of Eric Garner
BY WALTER FIELDS, NNPA Columnist It was one of the most difficult scenes in Spike Lee’s…
Tony Dungy Unfairly Attacked
BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA Columnist The homosexual mafia has struck again. This time,…
MLK’s case for reparations included disadvantaged whites
What does white America owe black America? To even broach that question 50 years after…
Grandmother viciously beaten by cop on LA freeway sues
A grandmother caught on video being viciously beaten by a California Highway Patrol…
Dispatches from Freedom Summer: The ghosts of Greenwood
Black and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters march on the boardwalk at…
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom…