Jesse Jackson’s life was defined by *** relentless fight for justice and equality. I was born in Greenville, South Carolina, uh, in rampant radical racial segregation. Had to…
Read more Children of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson honor his legacy as memorial services set for next weekAt the turn of the 20th century, a revolutionary education program called the Rosenwald Schools built new schoolhouses all across the Southeast for Black children, and the remnants…
Read more Rosenwald Schools taught a generation of early civil rights leaders across the South – WTOP NewsOn March 16, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Viola Liuzzo got into a late-model Oldsmobile and drove eight hundred miles from her home in Detroit, Michigan, to Selma,…
Read more From Selma to MinneapolisArmed agents of “law and order” in Mississippi confront MLK in 1966. Photo: AP Photo During the 30 years since the United States began observing the Martin Luther…
Read more MLK’s Legacy of Nonviolent Protest Is More Urgent Than EverRev. Martin Luther King Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Howard Manly, The Conversation Left out of GOP debates about…
Read more ‘The Most Dangerous Negro’: 3 Essential Reads on the FBI’s Assessment of MLK’s Radical Views and AlliesYour Support Keeps Us Strong The Atlanta Voice has stood as a pillar of truth, empowerment, and advocacy in Metro Atlanta for six decades. As we celebrate our…
Read more The Atlanta Voice Celebrates Hall of Fame Induction of Publisher Janis Ware and the Late J. Lowell WareAre colleges facing a free speech crisis? From the picket lines of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, to social media posts surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict…
Read more Are colleges facing a free speech crisis?LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Siena College hosted a reception of the Journey to Freedom project on February 3. The event honored 15 Capital Region veterans of the Civil…
Read more Siena College hosts ‘Journey to Freedom’ projectAs far as politically charged early innovators of the horror genre go, Night of the Living Dead takes the cake. Not only the template for the many zombie…
Read more Barbra As Ultimate Useless White Woman in Night of the Living DeadAn innocent man exonerated in the assassination of Malcolm X says in a $40 million lawsuit that the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover hid evidence pointing to the…
Read more In new $40M lawsuit, man cleared of Malcolm X slay blames FBI for hiding evidence of real killersOne supposed it sounded “harmless” enough. “Brilliant” even. Hank Willis Thomas certainly must have thought it was when he pitched the idea. An “emulation” (or rather, badly attempted…
Read more The Pornographic MLK StatueFive decades after his death, J. Edgar Hoover still haunts the FBI. His nearly 48-year reign as its director, from 1924 to 1972, has come to symbolize the…
Read more How J. Edgar Hoover Went From Hero to Villain
