Bob Moses organized for voting rights during the darkest days of the 1960s South. Today, his fight for civil rights continues, with a project to help inner city kids succeed in the classroom.
Race & Ethnicity
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Heroes “Without Rank or Wealth or Title or Fame”
To commemorate Martin Luther King’s great speech, Barack Obama focuses on the ordinary people whose names America doesn’t know.
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Nikki Giovanni Remembers 1963 with a New Poem
New work from a legendary writer in honor of the March on Washington’s 50th anniversary, and a conversation on growing up during the civil-rights movement
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The Six Months That Made the Sixties
The March on Washington marked the beginning of a tumultuous half-year whose events would shape the decade’s legacy.Â
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Freedom Fighters—the Next Generation
 An interview with Phillip Agnew, executive director of the Florida-based civil-rights group, the Dream Defenders.
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Prison Reform: No Longer Politically Toxic?
Attorney General Eric Holder may have brought attention to the problems of prison sentencing, but it’s been state legislatures—including staunchly conservatives ones—that have taken the lead in finding solutions.
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Dangerous Deportations
Tens of thousands of migrants from Mexico are put at risk of kidnapping—and even murder—after being deported from the United States.
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The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington
The story of the radicals behind—and in front of—the demonstration that changed America
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Ed Davis’s Minority Report
The Boston police commissioner is being floated as a potential nominee for head of Homeland Security, but there’s trouble at home, with allegations of rampant racial discrimination in his force.
