James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual
James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from
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Civil Rights Movement
Rust Belt Resilience: The History of Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club
When I first heard of the Buffalo mass shooting from my residence in California, I immediately reached out to my
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The “Radical” King and a Usable Past
Last September, Black Perspectives published a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr’s use of the year 1619 as a waypoint
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CORE’s Struggle for Fair Housing Rights in LA
It has been 60 years since the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) targeted racially segregated housing in Los Angeles. Although
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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present
What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a
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