Explore the intersection of national and global Black liberation movements at the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series.

they drew 36,767 fans — the largest paying crowd in Washington history to that point, The Post reported. They also drew more than 100 picketers from the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality ...

A Georgetown University history professor published a new book Feb. 3 narrating the impact of musicians and athletes on ...

He helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ... the seminal event in American civil rights history – the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and ...

the attention stirred by the Friendship Nine raised Mr. Gaither’s profile for putting King’s call for nonviolent protest into action as an organizer with the Congress of Racial Equality ...

Philip Randolph, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bayard Rustin organized the March on Washington for ... People (NAACP); James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); John Lewis, Student ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Federal disbursements identified by the Washington Examiner occurred under ... “The American people sent a clear message to Congress in November — they are tired of excessive government ...

In September 2023, Pew Research Center found that 44% of Americans feel at least somewhat pessimistic about the country's potential for racial equality ... of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) reported ...

Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Quaker Bayard Rustin, understood that racial equality ... now circulating in Washington. In the coming months, Congress will legislate on budget ...

It was co-sponsored by 20 other Republicans in Congress. “The DEI agenda is a destructive ideology that breeds hatred and racial division,” Vance said at the time. “I’m proud to introduce ...