The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers gave a televised speech in 1963 on the local station WLBT, speaking out against segregation in Mississippi.
Music isn't background noise. For so many of us, it's the thread woven through every significant moment of our lives.
Attacking civil rights groups like SPLC follows a pattern and practice of the administration’s revisionist terror and political prosecutions. We can’t afford to look away.
Throughout history, SNAP work requirements have not increased employment or job stability, nor have they removed economic barriers in a meaningful way.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. was a civil rights leader whose organizing in Selma ultimately led to the introduction of the Voting Rights Act.
Trump has paired economic attacks with a determined effort to control how Americans think about race, history, and identity.
Jesse Jackson did not just run for president in 1984 and 1988; he rewired the political imagination of this country.
Jackson’s rebuke of the Reagan administration offers a clear framework for challenging political extremism and economic exploitation today.
With this administration, anything is possible. Black History Month could be on the chopping block, and Juneteenth may be, too
The brochures described Byron De La Beckwith, the Klan member who killed Evers, as racist, something the Trump administration objects to.
When Claudette Colvin left this world on January 13th, with her went a library, a recipe box, and a curriculum we still don't understand how to follow.