Mar 07 50 years after 'Bloody Sunday,' see photos of Selma then and now By News Desk In Selma today, the town of about 20,000 people is roughly 80 percent black and more than 40 percent of residents live in poverty. Continue reading
Mar 06 Obama: Racial bias in Ferguson police department not isolated By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement. Continue reading
Mar 05 Despite mixed views on civil rights in 1965, Americans largely supported Selma marchers By Andrew Kohut When civil rights activists led a bloody protest march in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 that is credited with helping to assure passage of the Voting Rights Act that year, civil rights was a top issue for… Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 7:47 How can Ferguson law enforcement break a pattern of bias? By PBS News Hour A new report by the Department of Justice says that police in Ferguson, Missouri, have shown a pattern of racial bias and civil rights abuses. The findings come after a months-long investigation following the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch 5:13 Elementary school students lend their small voices to King's big dream By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 18 Long-lost audio of Martin Luther King Jr. speech found in UCLA storage room By Carey Reed An audio recording of a speech given by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, long thought to be lost in time, was made available to the masses this week online. Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch 9:24 Director Ava DuVernay on sharing the story of 'Selma' and deconstructing American heroes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 08 Watch 3:26 Director Ava DuVernay on sharing the story of 'Selma' and deconstructing American heroes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 07 With number of English learners growing, school districts get federal guidance on honoring students' civil rights By Kyla Calvert Mason For the first time this year, non-white children make up a larger portion of the country’s public school students than white children. Within that growing racial diversity is an increasing linguistic diversity. There are about 5 million public school students… Continue reading
Dec 12 Gwen's Take: Selma -- then and now By Gwen Ifill There is a shock of recognition in the scenes that begin and end “Selma,” the elegiac new work by filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Even if you know only a little about your history, the events surrounding the 1965 Selma to Montgomery,… Continue reading