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Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ‘60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s White Christian nationalism

A group of teenagers marching during a civil rights rally. Bettman via Getty Images by Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana Fifty-eight years ago in the...

Black Economic Boycotts of the Civil Rights Era Still Offer Lessons on How to Achieve a Just Society

Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images by Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst Signed into...

Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice

Civil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File by Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University Rev. James...

A lesson on dissent from a Vietnam War protester who joined the US military – and then faced execution after his protest didn’t stop

Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968. Bev Grant/Getty Images by Rodney Coates, Miami University During the...

The Women Who Stood With Martin Luther King Jr. and Sustained a Movement

Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: 5 things I’ve learned curating the MLK Collection at Morehouse College

by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College For the past 12 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin...

Black Detroiters Reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King

It is undeniably true that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has left Black Americans with a significant burden to complete what he began while...

State scores F in civil rights class

Think about Ferguson and the Justice Department’s recent report that condemned the Ferguson police department and court system for biased and discriminatory law enforcement...

Beyond the Bridge: The Suppression Never Ended

The stirring film Selma ends with Dr. King leading civil rights marchers across the bridge and to passage of the Voting Rights Act of...

Oprah and ‘Selma’ cast to march in Alabama to honor of Martin Luther King

Media magnate and Selma producer Oprah Winfrey will join the cast members in a march Sunday in Selma, Ala. to commemorate the birthday of Martin…

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