Members and supporters of the South Christian Leadership Conference recently convened in the nation’s capital for its 60th annual convention, during which those in the forefront reiterated the importance of the group’s decades-long mission. [read more…]
Film, music and other artistic mediums compel deep examination of the human condition and reflection on how one can affect change. Since 2013, the March on Washington Film Festival has been an incubator for cinema old and new that inspires such discussion. [read more…]
Thousands gathered at the U.S. Capitol and at capitol buildings in more than 30 cities across the nation this week as part of Rev. Dr. William Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign’s 40 days of radical civil disobedience. [read more…]
In 1963, D.C.’s WOOK-TV launched “Teenarama,” the first Black dance program in the country, on the first television station in the country with programming for Black audiences. [read more…]
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s original Poor People’s Campaign, its follow-up resurgence involving more than 30 state capitals and D.C. has launched a 40-day period of nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience. [read more…]
Hundreds of people lined up in the rain to experience a long overdue piece of American history and honor the lives lost to lynching at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. [read more…]
The National Museum for Peace and Justice, opened Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., featuring a memorial dedicated to thousands of lynching victims. [read more…]
The photograph of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laying in a pool of blood on the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel still moves me to tears. [read more…]
People of different faiths from across the country gathered in D.C. for a rally Wednesday, April 4, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and to confront racism. [read more…]
On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the builders of the memorial dedicated to the civil rights icon on the National Mall gave young people a stage to reflect on his life and legacy. [read more…]
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