MLK was murdered 57 years ago today…and many of us have still not come to grips with the fact that there is no one leader of the Black Freedom Movement (or, for that matter, any movement!). King ...

Explore the powerful role of Assamese women in India’s freedom struggle, from Kanaklata Barua to Chandraprabha Saikiani.

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Al Green, shook his cane and shouted at the president. When he refused ...

Written by Daniel J. Mulligan, MA, and Erica D. Marshall Lee, Ph.D., on behalf of the Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates For most Americans, the defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement was ...

Sixty years after the Civil Rights Movement, Albany’s Rutha Mae Harris, last original Freedom Singer, continues to inspire ...

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Racial violence and oppression was a cruel part of life for Black people in the South, and it demanded a uniquely American response. The NAACP was founded in 1908 to address an epidemic of lynchings ...

On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Joshua Davis, a history professor at the University of Baltimore and author of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil ...

Kasturba Gandhi, an Indian political activist is widely known for her involvement in the Indian independence movement during British India. She was born into the Bania Family on April 11, 1869, in ...

Forward by Cornel West--Cover. ANAC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreward / Cornel West -- Introduction / Frank Barat -- Progressive struggles against insidious ...

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump’s address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Al Green, shook his cane and shouted at the president. When he refused ...