"There are two Americas": Joy-Ann Reid on the legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers salon.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from salon.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bob Dylan s third album The Times They Are A-Changin was his darkest and most political, a modern folk landmark that remains a template for socially conscious music.
5 New Books to Read for Black History Month publishersweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publishersweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
If you are a Southerner or your parents were it is almost certain you grew up with this mythology in your home, your school and your church. Challenging that story may seem to challenge everything.
Jerry Mitchell, founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and former investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, spoke at the McCord Auditorium at SMU on Nov. 2 about the civil rights cases he re-opened through his reporting. Mitchell’s reporting helped place Ku Klux Klan members behind bars for the deaths of American civil rights activists.