civil rights movement

(Runtime 1:54)A racial justice organization in Seattle is expanding its reach with a $30 thousand grant to a civil rights education organization on the…

It isn’t always easy to find live performances of gospel or spirituals in the Inland Northwest, but a group of educators is bringing it to us.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FxT3j5Vju9jqdtJvy4ZSFThe first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882. The labor movement is long, varied, and complex. But…

Decades later, Birmingham News Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist John Archibald is trying to do just that. Archibald comes from a long line of Methodist preachers in the South; his father had a pulpit at a critical time and place in American history — 1960s Alabama.

By 1950, 20% of Pasco’s approximately 10,000 residents were Black, almost all living in slum conditions. Few lived in the new atomic community of Richland and none in “lily-white” Kennewick -- a fact of which Kennewick city leaders and police at the time were proud. Not only was housing segregated, but Black residents were forced to endure broad discrimination in employment and education.

In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

The "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" march comes as frustration over police brutality and use of force have sparked national protests following the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd.

The longtime congressman and civil rights legend is being memorialized at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton spoke.

In 1965, John Lewis was nearly killed as he led a group of protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to protest racial discrimination in voting. Today, his body crossed that bridge one last time.

Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades.