Oscar-nominated actress Ruby Dee, who was also known for her activism during the US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 91, her agent said Thursday.
The desegregation of America’s schools was one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement. But getting there was a wrenching process that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of our society. In the South, the first African-American…
African-American and Hispanic churches gathered at San Antonio City Hall on Tuesday to pray against a proposal to include LGBT people in the city's non-discrimination ordinance.
In the clip embedded below, Rachel Maddow discussed how Republican attempts to restrict voting access for traditionally Democratic constituencies has re-energized and given new focus to the civil rights movement. As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom approaches, voting rights organizations and advocates are working all over the country to counteract the effect of restrictive new Republican voter ID laws and other attempts to keep young, poor, African-American and Latino voters away from the polls.
Former Fox News personality Glenn Beck said he believed Tuesday morning that he was capable of leading a "new civil rights movement" in America after claiming that fascism was coming to Europe.
One of the most annoying habits of conservative pundits is their tendency to take faux umbrage whenever it's suggested that modern day liberals are the ones carrying the legacy of the civil rights movement when they do things like fight poverty (something Martin Luther King Jr. died trying to do) by doing things like expanding health care access. "How dare they!" say conservatives, often implying that they're the real inheritors of the legacy, because free markets and color blindness and shit. That most black voters go for Democrats is explained away by implying they're stupid dupes of Democrats. Suggesting that it's screwed up to dismiss an entire voting bloc as stupid is characterized as the "real" racism.
