May 19 Watch 7:18 A look at Jim Brown’s life and legacy as a football great and activist By Amna Nawaz, Ryan Connelly Holmes, Shoshana Dubnow, Teresa Cebrian Aranda Jim Brown, one of the greatest legends of the NFL, has died. Brown blazed an athletic path few have equaled. He left the game as its most-famous and best player to pursue a life in acting and activism as the… Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch 5:59 Martin Luther King III reflects on Dr. King’s legacy in divided times By John Yang, Andrew Corkery Sunday marks the 94th birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Monday is the federal holiday honoring him. Since the 1990s, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been a day of civic, community and service projects. Continue watching
Dec 11 Dorothy Pitman Hughes, pioneering Black feminist and community activist, dies at 84 By Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist… Continue reading
Dec 03 Georgia’s runoff elections have segregationist roots By Nicole Ellis, Rachel Liesendahl Since the 1960s, Georgia’s majority voting law has required a candidate get 50 percent of the vote or more in order to be declared the winner. Continue reading
Jul 31 Watch 7:37 The double life of civil rights photographer Ernest Withers By Geoff Bennett, Harry Zahn, Juliet Fuisz Photographer Ernest Withers captured some of the most iconic images of the civil rights era. But Withers was also an FBI informant, funneling information to the bureau about the civil rights movement and its leaders. Journalist Wesley Lowery joins Geoff… Continue watching
Jun 18 Court posthumously vacates Freedom Riders’ 1947 convictions in North Carolina By Tom Foreman Jr., Associated Press On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court Morgan v. Virginia ruling declaring… Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch 6:04 ‘Civil Rights Queen’ examines the legacy of Constance Baker Motley By Nicole Ellis, Saher Khan, Tyriana Evans As President Biden prepares to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, we revisit another historic first. Constance Baker Motley was the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary and the first to argue before the Supreme… Continue watching
Jan 17 Watch 9:13 MLK Jr. would be ‘greatly disappointed’ by Senate inaction on voting reform, son says Monday has been a day to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and also a day of calls to action on voting rights. Demonstrators marched through streets in Washington in support of voting legislation now stalled in… Continue watching
Nov 18 Watch 9:12 Why Malcolm X’s murder was revisited, and what exonerations say about U.S. justice system By John Yang, Murrey Jacobson A New York judge on Thursday exonerated two men of assassinating Malcolm X. The iconic civil rights figure was gunned down in Manhattan in 1965. Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam were convicted, and imprisoned until the 1980's. A… Continue watching
Nov 24 Bruce Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83 By Associated Press Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides," has died at the age of 83. Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white part of a racially segregated bus station in Virginia and ultimately… Continue reading