New Orleans Civil Rights icon Jerome "Big Duck" Smith died after his battle with a lengthy illness, his family members ...
New Orleans Freedom Rider founded Tambourine and Fan organization ...
"Generations of New Orleans were shaped by a man who had already shaped history, yet still believed his most important work ...
Selma’s long-abandoned Edistone Hotel, witness to 170 years of African American history, was recently saved by a non-profit ...
When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...
Fighting injustice in 2026 must mean more than simply retracing the footsteps of those who fought in the Civil Rights ...
For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...
More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s ...
Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...