Tag: civil rights movement

There's a reason many African-Americans of a certain age cringed at Donald Trump's blatantly racist dog whistles during the campaign. It brought back memories...

On April 8, 1968, just four days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed, thousands of people marched through Memphis, Tennessee. That...

Some people, my paternal grandfather always said, are so stupid they don't even realize how truly ignorant they are. Take, as the perfect example of...

Next Friday will mark 60 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi to visit relatives, only to be brutally murdered for...

At a lavish oceanfront California ballroom on Sunday, Charles Koch told over 450 wealthy conservative acolytes that political campaigns run by both he and...

We all know about Dylann Storm Roof. So much, in fact, that we are no longer discussing his actions, but covering trips to Burger...

Click here for PART 1. The successes in Alabama that resonated throughout the former Confederacy did not manifest in the Chicago marches and in some...

Want to know how far removed racists are from reality? Consider how the League of the South, one of the more notorious white supremacist...

There have been a lot of horror stories about how the FBI operated under J. Edgar Hoover. But Beverly Gage, an American history professor...