When Booker speaks until exhaustion, he channels the persistence of civil rights activists who staged sit-ins at segregated ...

I recently went to a rally and listened to the great Sherrilyn Ifill as she talked about the 14th Amendment and how people have always pushed against it, from ratification to the moment when Ronald ...

Dozens of 5-to-17-year-olds wore makeup and fashions of the era to depict historical figures and highlight their achievements for the annual Blacks in Wax.

There are moments in our national life when the weight of injustice feels almost immovable, when truth is twisted, rights are ...

Their names include Nannie Helen Burroughs, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and later womanist theologians ... and the same might be said for religious democracy. In a 1964 speech, Hamer explains how ...

Robert Johnson III, the Democratic leader, authored a resolution to replace Mississippi’s two statues of Jefferson Davis and J.Z. George in the U.S Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection with ...

The documentary examines the life of civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer, offering first-hand accounts by those who knew her and worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights.