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Topic: Civil Rights (page 5)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks between seven-year-old Eva Gracelemon, left, and 10-year-old Aritha Willis as he escorts black school children to formerly all-white schools in Grenada, Miss., Tuesday morning, Sept. 20, 1966. (AP)

The radical message of MLK

Paul Harvey
(Getty/isitsharp)

A ban on drag?

Nick Lingerfelt - Salon Young Americans
(Shutterstock)

R.I.P. Craigslist personal ads

Nicole Karlis
FILE - In this May 12, 1960, file photo, President Dwight Eisenhower, front right, shakes hands with Rep. Arch Moore, of West Virginia, as he poses with a group of Republican congressmen after breakfast at the White House, in Washington. Moore, whose guilty pleas to federal corruption charges overshadowed his record as his era's most successful Republican in Democrat-dominated West Virginia, died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. He was 91. (AP Photo/Bill Allen, File) (AP)

Is there still an American center?

Louis Galambos - The Conversation
Camp 6 detainee cells at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP/Ben Fox)

al Nashiri's lawyers were surveilled

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Matt Rourke)

Title VII protects LGBT: appeals court

Nicole Karlis
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court-mandated congressional districts for 2018 (Getty/MerveKarahan/Pennsylvania Supreme Court)

Pa.'s gerrymander ruling changes the map

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

Desegregating blood

Thomas A Guglielmo - The Conversation
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
Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker, Women's March Organizers and Artist Activists (Guy Furrow)

How to find joy in the Resistance

Lauren Schiller
Demonstrators participate in gay rights protest in San Francisco, July 15, 1984 (AP/Joe Skipper)

Urgent mission of "Making Gay History"

Terence Mickey - Memory Motel
FILE – This April 10, 2015, file photo shows the car driven by Timothy Russell, killed along with Malissa Williams in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire on Nov. 29, 2012, in Cleveland. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, April 13, 2017, that a judge in Cleveland, where two unarmed blacks died in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire on Nov. 29, 2012, can hear dereliction of duty charges against five police supervisors accused of failing to control a high-speed chase involving more than 100 officers. (AP Photo/Aaron Josefczyk, Pool, File) (AP)

Police shoot more people than we thought

Kali Holloway - Alternet
Doug Jones and his wife Louise (AP/John Bazemore)

30 things we love about Alabama

Rachel Leah

Military to welcome trans recruits

Jarrett Lyons
Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Women could also lose in Cakeshop case

Lourdes Rivera
(Getty// YinYang)

Wedding cake? It's about civil rights

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla//Salon)

Before Breitbart

Sid Bedingfield - The Conversation
(Shutterstock)

Facebook's big race problem

Julia Angwin, Ariana Tobin, Madeleine Varner - ProPublica
Ben Carson (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Making discrimination great again

Sarah Okeson

The new attack on freedom of thought

Bill Moyers - BillMoyers.com
(iStockphoto/selimaksan)

Gutting voting rights in California

Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet

Who owns black stories?

Tom Roston
Hugh Hefner, Harold Washington and Sidney Poitier (AP/Suzanne Hanover)

Hugh Hefner's real legacy is racial

Rachel Leah
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