A dynamic new memorial to lynching victims seeks to inspire local efforts to make the history of racial terror in America more visible and tangible, challenging each county where a racial terror lynching took place to permanently install a memorial to the victim.
An Equal Justice Initiative project is engaging hundreds of people to collect soil at lynching sites and to create community remembrance projects that tell the stories of lynching victims.
Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Institute, talks about how slavery didn't just end in 1865, but how it evolved through Jim Crow, segregation and mass incarceration.
Political courage might seem to be in short supply, but it was inside a young boxer from Louisville
In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.
New WGN America series brings story of Underground Railroad to the small screen.
In a Black History Month special, we remember the life and legacy of the legendary poet, playwright, civil rights activist, Maya Angelou. Now, for the first time, a documentary chronicles her remarkable life.
Slave labor helped build the "Wall" in "Wall Street" centuries ago. This video on the intertwining of our economic system with racial oppression was produced by Trinity Church, located at Broadway and Wall Street. Trinity Church takes an hard look at its own complex role in that history.
Reverend Dr. William J. Barber has been leading the grassroots, progressive movement in North Carolina. Here are his principles for successful organizing.
Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist who had been challenging white supremacy for decades before she became the famous catalyst for the Montgomery bus boycott. We see a woman who, from her youth, didn't hesitate to indict the system of oppression around her. As she once wrote, "I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro." Today we honor her, as part of African American History Month.
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