Smithsonian Magazine

Where the Movement Lives: Eight Tennessee Landmarks on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

Clarence B. Jones, Who Helped Shape ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Dies at 95

A confidant and lawyer for Martin Luther King, he was an unseen hand behind major civil rights events, including the 1963 ...
The Root

Bernice King Gives David Banner a History Lesson on Her Father’s Views on Integration

Bernice King is setting the record straight on her father, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, legacy after comedian and rapper ...
The Associated Press

On the voting rights trail, bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight

In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers before returning ...
Education Week

Decades After Brown v. Board, New Lawsuit Challenges Persistent K-12 Segregation

Racially segregated public schools have been illegal in Massachusetts since before the Civil War, and nationwide since the ...
NPR

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

Life’s too short for small talk. Rachel gets right to the questions that matter most. Once a week, famous guests pull questions from a deck of cards and open up about the kind of stuff we all think ...