Civil Rights Movement

Tom Joyner’s farewell

First nationally syndicated African American radio host retiring after 25 years

In honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Dance Theater of Harlem tells its audience to ‘keep movin’’

Dancer Carmen de Lavallade and civil rights activist Xernona Clayton were feted at the company’s season-opening performance

HBO’s ‘King in the Wilderness’ reveals the loneliness of his last years

Interviews with Martin Luther King’s closest friends reveal the personal cost of his focus on poverty and Vietnam

As anti-gun violence protesters converge on Washington, football great Calvin Hill recalls the teenage activists of the civil rights movement

Today’s teenage activists follow in the footsteps of African-Americans in the ‘60s

Daily Dose: 12/8/17

John Lewis will not attend civil rights museum opening

Can’t get into the Blacksonian? 25 black-centered museums near you

Seattle to St. Croix, Memphis to Miami — these art spaces are as vibrant and important as ever

Walter Beach, who was at ’67 Cleveland Summit, says he was ‘never contaminated’ by white supremacy

He says now is the time for black athletes to stand for ‘their dignity and their worth’

Death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson plans a lynching memorial in Alabama

Project will honor the victims of ‘racial terrorism’

On MLK Day, Trump-Lewis throwdown draws varied responses

Protest passes by National Museum of African American History and Culture, but all is calm at King memorial