Cover Photo: John Lewis at the March on Washington in 1963. Getty Images. . . . We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people…
Photo credit: Demonstrators protest police brutality at the White House, March 12, 1965. (from Origins at OSU). For those who do not know our history well, this past week might seem unparalleled. A public…
Photo: “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” (MPI/Getty Images) The term lynching is not a metaphor. It doesn’t apply to every heinous racist assault against black people. But it’s also true that the term…
Media commentary to the contrary notwithstanding, Senator-Elect Doug Jones’ innovative prosecutorial work on the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing was not his only contribution to the civil rights agenda, although he is best…
On June 5, 1964, a few weeks before the murder of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba, I sent my mother a letter from Jackson, Mississippi. With other staff members…