Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...

The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement ... Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press. Crawford, Vicki L., Rouse, ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement ... one of the few Black Republicans ...

Exploring the incredible legacy left by the defiant performer and songwriter Nina Simone, particularly her 1966 song 'Four Women', which typified the era.

The Congressional Black Caucus stood in firm support of Green's actions and, in their own move to disrupt, CBC members sang "We Shall Overcome," an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, as Johnson ...

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved ... built a new church in 1965 during the Civil Rights Movement. That original site is on a visible ...

But when the Civil Rights Movement came around ... is extremely popular with both Black and white listeners. And this is an African American man in the early '30s. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SUZANNE SMITH: ...

Archival, grainy black-and-white footage from the civil rights movement was spliced between ... will stay on as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. Theater’s Most Powerful ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965, his music is still some of the most played in the world, and his celebrity ...

The movement ... But to Black Americans grappling with a fierce resurgence of forces that they believe are beating back the causes of social justice and civil rights, it felt like much more.