James Chaney
President Biden, You Must Protect The Voting Rights Of Those Who Elected You
Photos: YouTube\Facebook I was proud to work hard for the election of President Joe Biden. And I was proud to protest outside the Biden ...
Fannie Lou Hamer: Grassroots Civil Rights Activist
Photo: YouTube Fannie Lou Hamer was a grassroots civil rights activist whose life exemplified resistance in rural Mississippi to oppressive conditions. Born on October ...
“The Murder of Emmett Till,” “Freedom Summer,” Documentaries now Streaming
[The Murder of Emmett Till\Freedom Summer] Susan Bellows: “These films not only explore the history of our nation’s ongoing struggle with race, they have ...
QUEENS COLLEGE COMMEMORATES DR. KING’S HOLIDAY AND REMEMBERS HIS 1965 QUEENS COLLEGE SPEECH
[MLK Holiday Commemoration\Queens College] Dr. King at Queens College on May 13, 1965, speaking on the murder of Andrew Goodman: “I certainly stand here ...
Joe Biden: All Other Rights Flow From Voting Rights
Making history–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shown with President Johnson Our task to protect the fundamental right to vote is as critical today as ...
Paid In Blood: We Must Continue The Fight To Protect Voting Rights
Many lost their live to get us to that moment; we must never go backwards Last week, I had the great honor to receive ...
50 Years Later: Freedom Summers And Robert Williams Black Self-Defense, 1964 And 2014
Robert and Mabel Williams Fifty years ago, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), two of the most ...
We, The People: Remembering Freedom Summer
Bob Moses Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ...
Inspiring Initiative: John Lewis Urges Youth To Get in ‘Necessary Trouble’
Rep. John Lewis Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s part of ...
Building On Civil Rights Movement: From Freedom Summer to Freedom Schools
[Comment] As a brand-new law school graduate in 1963, I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s first ...
