If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...

By centering “freedom” in her campaign ... This legacy partly drives an attitudinal divide between Black and white Christians ...

Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond project uncovers stories of enslaved people who ...

On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK.

In his posthumously published autobiography, Carmichael spoke about the significance of the Freedom Rides: "CORE would be sending an integrated team-black and white together-from the nation's ...

Black perspectives are essential in understanding religious freedom in the context of state-sanctioned racism and ...

Ferguson, after a black man in New ... in her interview for Freedom Riders. "The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so ...

There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...

“The state was segregated. Schools were segregated.” Freedom Riders were groups of mostly young Black and White students who road buses across the South in 1961, challenging segregation in ...

Samuel Crawford, one of 24,000 Black Kentuckians who fought for their freedom and helped save the Union, is buried in Mayfield’s Oak Crest Cemetery.

The Trump administration released a list of 443 federal buildings that the federal government planned to offload from their ownership.