Freedom

In her police mugshot taken almost 60 years ago in Jackson, Mississippi, Catherine Burks-Brooks looks straight into the camera, without fear or agitation. One might even interpret the curve of her mouth as a smirk. What was Brooks – then a…

U.S. Representative Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, urged President Biden to bestow the Medal of Honor on Alabama 90-year-old civil rights attorney Fred Gray, and called the personal attorney for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and other…

Deon Taylor (Fatale, Black & Blue) has come on board to lead the civil rights drama Freedom Ride and shares the efforts of late Congressman John Lewis and other activists to end segregation laws. Hideaway Entertainment, INDE…

White House adviser to President Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday for the second time outraged her offensive remarks. After drawing a target on the back of the Twitter executive responsible for preventing disinformation and joking, she's now…

Image: May Day 1914 (Flickr) Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity.…

Photo courtesy of the African American Cultural Alliance NashvilleKwame Lillard, a Freedom Rider who bore the scars, teachings and memories of the civil rights struggle through a life of activism, died on Sunday evening. He was 81…

There was no red carpet and no new winner for the Freedom Award, but the COVID-19 pandemic did not prevent the museum from celebrating those who fought for civil rights with glamor and an evening to remember. "Tonight we're going back in…