There is no more dramatic measure of the distance our society has traveled during the past half century than the fact that 50 years ago signing your name could be an act of extraordinary bravery. In ...

Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr., the civil rights activist who was a driving force behind many of the historic days that changed ...

Discover the legacy of SNCC, the influential student organization that played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement.

From Emmett Till to SNCC & Beyond: Words + Music + Art features a collective of performance and visual artists commemorating the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till's murder and the 65th anniversary of ...

Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica will present From Emmett Till to SNCC & Beyond: Words + Music + Art on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. The one-night-only benefit will commemorate ...

”Your world,” Joyce Ladner warned the children of her old comrades in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they celebrated the 50th anniversary of their movement in Raleigh, N.C., ...

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. By Sam Roberts A charismatic orator in the ...