Apr 18 The Freedom Summer Killings By PBS News Hour James Earl Chaney lived in Mississippi his entire life. Michael Schwerner spent six months in the state and Andrew Goodman had been there only a day. Continue reading
Apr 18 The Birmingham Church Bombing By PBS News Hour The 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four young girls, shocked the city of Birmingham and the world. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger's investigative reporter describes how his articles on past racially-motivated killings have led to renewed legal interest in civil rights era crimes. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: Bill Minor A correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Picayune who chronicled the civil rights struggle in Jackson, Minor discusses the shift in attitudes he's seen in the city and The Clarion-Ledger. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: Mayor Harvey Johnson The mayor of Jackson, Miss. discusses the evolution his city and the Clarion-Ledger underwent to disavow their segregationist past. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: John Hammack The Clarion-Ledger's online editor, Hammack has worked for the newspaper on four separate occasions since 1962. In this interview with Terence Smith, he compares the Clarion-Ledger of old with his current workplace. Continue watching
Apr 16 Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Virtual Child Pornography By Admin In a 6-3 decision, the U.S Supreme Court Tuesday struck down a congressional ban that made it a crime to distribute or possess computer-generated images of minors engaged in sexual acts. Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch Cincinnati: One Year Later Betty Ann Bowser reports on a resolution signed by Attorney General John Ashcroft to improve policing in Cincinnati, Ohio one year after race riots occurred there. Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Redemption: Journalism and September 11 Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism for coverage of September 11th and its aftermath. Continue watching
Apr 09 NBC to Begin ‘Oprah’-Style Book Club NBC's "Today" program on Monday announced plans for a monthly on-air book club, picking up an idea Oprah Winfrey says her syndicated talk show is phasing out. Continue reading