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(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

It's time for a New Reconstruction

K. Sabeel Rahman
Jimi Hendrix performs at Woodstock Festival, 1969, New York State

The Sixties: Equality through music

Michael V. Drake - The Conversation
Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi, Aug. 31, 1955. (Associated Press)

Justice for Till: DOJ reopens case

Rachel Leah
Lunch counter sit in protest, 1960; Anti Trump protest, 2018 (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Moral cowardice and the media

Chauncey DeVega
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Betty Reid Soskin

Why Rosie the Riveter "is not my icon"

Lauren Schiller
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated. (AP)

How Memphis police leaders failed MLK

Joseph Rosenbloom
Fred Rogers (Getty Images/Westminster John Knox Press)

Mister Rogers and Mr. Trump

Chauncey DeVega
(MSNBC)

"The Snake" author's kids strike back

Rachel Leah
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Lupita Nyong'o, Chadwick Boseman, and Danai Gurira in "Black Panther" (Marvel Studios)

"Black Panther": A true breakthrough?

Chauncey DeVega
Martin Luther King Jr., flanked by his wife Coretta and John Lewis, leads a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (AP)

The Civil Rights movement, weaponized

Jeanne Theoharis
"X Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation" (T Charles Erickson Photography)

Malcolm X: On stage and human at last

Rachel Leah
Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta (right) and John Lewis (far right), lead a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965 (AP)

Huckabee Sanders "explains" civil rights

Nicole Karlis
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Zeshan B; Donald Trump (Peter Cooper/AP/Evan Vucci)

Salon Stage: Zeshan B

Rachel Leah
(AP Photo, File)

Hugh Hefner damaged women's lives

Liz Posner - Alternet
Anti-Vietnam War protest (AP)

It's 1967 all over again

Ted Morgan
Political activist Dick Gregory talk with the press in Springfield , May 24, 1982. Gregory entered his third day of a five-day total fast with no food or water. He joined seven women who are fasting on water only in protest of Illinois' failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. The women entered their seventh day of fasting, vowing to keep it up until the passage of E.R.A by the Illinois legislature. (AP Photo) (AP Photo)

Gregory, 84, died Saturday

Taylor Link
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(America: Land I Love)

Trump’s war on the 1960s

Leonard Steinhorn - BillMoyers.com
Noam Chomsky (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

Chomsky: Embrace evangelicals

Charles Derber
Jim Jones leading a Peoples Temple service, with Marceline standing behind him. Jones kept a vessel on a shelf behind his podium so he could discreetly relieve himself during hours-long Temple services. (Special Collections and University Archives, San Diego State University Library & Information Access)

The myths of Jonestown

Bob Calhoun
(Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Jon Else - TomDispatch.com
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#1960NOW

Rachel Leah
(AP/Horace Cort)

Christopher Beem - The Conversation
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2015 file photo, Frank Levingston Jr., of Lake Charles, La., is greeted by visitors following a wreath laying ceremony to mark the anniversary of Pearl Harbor at the World War II Memorial in Washington. Levingston, a 110-year-old veteran who served in World War II has died, on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. () (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Black GIs in WWII

Maria Höhn - The Conversation
John Lewis; Donald Trump (AP/Susan Walsh/Getty/Drew Angerer)

Lewis feud: Trump wins again

Chauncey DeVega
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