The icon died from a bacterial infection in Washington D.C. over the weekend.

How modern activism caused a divide between the new and old schools on how to bring about social change.

Leader, scholar, writer, and acclaimed civil rights hero, Julian Bond, has passed away.

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President Obama has proposed a new $50 million plan to restore the historic Southern sites of the civil rights movement. The proposal is incredibly fitting as this year marks the 50th anniversary of The 1965 Voting Rights Act which we all know was the result of the Selma marches that began in 1963. The money funding the […]

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Eight of the little known, but historic group of men, the Friendship 9, had their convictions dismissed today by South Carolina judge, Mark Hayes. The momentous decision took 54 years! The Friendship 9 were all college friends who were arrested and jailed for 30 days in 1961 for trying to participate at a sit-in protest. Hayes said before the […]

It’s been 51 years since the groundbreaking marches in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama took place. The people from that era who are alive and willing to speak on the civil rights movement are literally walking encyclopedias on what it’s like to fight for freedom against the circumstance of adversity. One of those pillars of knowledge and […]