In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our ...

At 93, the former U.N. ambassador and civil rights icon looks back on the unglamorous but essential labor that helped ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of ...

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I am not one of those who believe that Donald Trump has already turned America into a dictatorship. Yet the crossing-over ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

Disclaimer: I wrote this in response to an individual on Instagram. They have a different point of view than what I have studied about pre-civil rights, especially in the 30s. Some of those effects of ...