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Civil Rights Movement
“The Power of the People”: “Selma” Director Ava DuVernay on Fight for Civil Rights, Voting Equality
In an extended interview with "Selma" director Ava DuVernay, we broadcast excerpts from her Oscar-nominated film.
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“Selma”: A Beautifully Shot Film Shows How Change Really Happens
Neither a "great man" history of Martin Luther King Jr., nor a tale of forgotten underdogs, Selma is about skilled activists building a movement.
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Fifty Years Ago: A Turning Point in Civil Rights, the 1960s and US Politics
As we observe important 50-year anniversaries, we are also losing awareness of the power and potential of direct political action.
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Common Core Betrays the Civil Rights Movement
Common Core's promise does not correspond to its reality.
Long a Force for Progress, a Freedom Summer Legend Looks Back
Georgia Congressman John Lewis talks about what changed, and didn't, because of the movement he helped to lead 50 years ago.
Activist Mab Segrest Discusses Civil Rights, History of Structural Racism in the US
From police killings, to Stand Your Ground laws, to Medicaid refusal in majority-minority states, 50 years after Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act, activist Mab Segrest says structural …
The Kochs’ Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Documents Expose Charles Koch’s Ties to John Birch Society
New documents show billionaire oil industrialist Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its campaigns against the civil rights movement.
Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher
Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its active campaigns against the civil rights movement.
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Remembering Vincent Harding, an Enduring Veteran of Hope
The author of a series of books on the civil rights movement - which he called the Southern Freedom movement - he not only wrote history, but also played …
Remembering The Movement? A Question for the National Civil Rights Museum
How do we teach the Movement? The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis asserts in its name its claim to offer an exemplary, nationally significant model.