Medgar Evers

NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated 60 years ago. His wife, the activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, has fought for his civil rights legacy ever since.

What my father saw in Mississippi.

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.

Jerry Mitchell revisits a dark episode in the struggle for civil rights.

How cars changed the lives of black Americans.

The woman whose testimony was central to the infamous case admits feeling 'tender sorrow.'

A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.

Listen to Blood, Sweat and Tears again.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

Banning such teaching isn’t colorblind; it would erase Black people from history and maintain White cultural dominance.

Dick Gregory was an activist, comedian, and trendsetter for Black vegans.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

There are always three violences. The first is the violence itself.

Myrlie Evers began to weep when she heard the Mississippi Legislature vote to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.