On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated to teaching history through songs that were prevalent during the Civil ...

The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both Black and ...

The civil rights movement brought a swift, often violent response from white segregationists willing to beat, threaten, and kill. By one count during Mississippi Freedom Summer there were 80 civil ...

The sight of Till’s mutilated and decomposed corpse at his open-casket funeral galvanized the civil-rights movement. Mars and her old friend Betty Bobo, whose last name was now Pearson ...

Immigrants rights groups were joined by faith and labor organizations at a downtown Los Angeles protest against the looming ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail The Latest As ...

The group, on the road celebrating its 50th anniversary, comes to SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium this week for a four-day run. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

The U.S. Justice Department has been cleared to send lawyers to polling sites in Missouri and Texas on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws after those Republican-led ...

Here, Seeger performs the song by himself (with help from the audience) in 1956: 4. "We Will Overcome" Seeger didn't write the 1960s Civil Rights Movement anthem "We Shall Overcome," but he played ...

Dive into the evolution of Cascade from its origins during the era of desegregation to its present-day status as a beloved cultural institution. Notable People who died in 2024 Ancelotti ...