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Ernest "Rip" Patton Jr., a freedom rider and early member of the Nashville civil rights movement in the 1960s, has died. The death was confirmed Tuesday by Dorothy Walker, director of the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, who has…

August 20, 2021 In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides, the Office of Equity and Human Rights has the pleasure to welcome Freedom Rider and civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and her son, filmmaker…

In 1960, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in bus stations, train stations and airports was illegal under the Interstate Commerce Act. (The Boynton v Virginia case stems from an incident in 1958 when Howard University law…

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…

Junior Danielle "Dani" Jackson, double major in history, film and television, is turning an academic research project into a 12-part documentary series on the struggle of African American veterans for civil rights with a recent Kickstarter…

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…

The family of an Uber Eats driver who was killed in Australia earlier this year has filed a claim for damages over his death in what could become a landmark for the gig economy.Five delivery drivers have died in Australia since the end of…