Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on "race, color, sex, religion, or national origin." Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political change, I ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a ...
Millions of people took to the streets last weekend in solidarity against President Donald Trump. Protest signs and public speeches decried his administration’s attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people and ...
America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...
Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past tonight awarded its Simeon Booker Awards for Courage to a leader of the civil rights movement and a Youngstown elementary teacher whose lessons include the civil ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Bob Kendrick, president and CEO of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum discussed the impact that Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball ...
When Angie Nixon took to the Florida House floor this spring to raise a ruckus about Republicans’ newly redrawn congressional districts, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate channeled the lessons of ...
Foreword: "How we tell about the civil rights movement and why it matters" / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Introduction: Exploring NASA in the "long" civil rights movement / Brian C. Odom and Stephen P.
NMAF copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In "crisp prose" (The New York Times) and novelistic detail Saying It Loud tells the story of how the Black Power phenomenon began ...
WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Documentary Filmmaker Ken Burns discussed Jackie Robinson, his breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and its impact on the Civil ...
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