Feb 27 Watch Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol… Continue watching
Feb 27 Watch Supreme Court Hears Arguments Against Key Provision of Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Hears Arguments Against Key Provision of Voting Rights Act… Continue watching
Feb 26 My Friend Who Made History By Judy Woodruff Charlayne Hunter-Gault broke barriers when she arrived to the University of Georgia in 1961. Her strength and fortitude allowed her to thrive on a racially hostile campus would serve her in her future career as an award-winning journalist. Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch Known for Single Act of Defiance, Rosa Parks Trained for Life Full of Activism Known for Single Act of Defiance, Rosa Parks Trained for Life Full of Activism… Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Supreme Court Upholds Inmate Strip Searches Regardless of Charges Supreme Court Upholds Inmate Strip Searches Regardless of Charges… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch ‘Mosque Crawlers,’ ‘Rakers’ Monitoring U.S. Muslims for NYPD The White House helped fund a police surveillance effort of Muslims in the New York City area after 9/11, The Associated Press revealed Monday. The operation, part of a monitoring story that emerged last summer, triggered immediate criticism from civil… Continue watching
Feb 02 Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. In 1957, she became a household name when she fought for the right of nine black… Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock… Continue watching
Jan 16 Watch On this MLK Day, Righting the Rhetoric on King’s Memorial In remembrance of the civil rights leader Monday, many visitors to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial stopped to read aloud the inspiring words -- and one misquote -- chiseled in granite. Margaret Warner discusses the mistake with the… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch Book Tells How Iconic Civil Rights Era Photo Changed Lives of 2 Women The story of how one iconic civil rights era photograph changed the lives of two women is the subject of David Margolick's new book, "Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock." Ray Suarez and the Vanity Fair editor discuss… Continue watching