Decades after Freedom Summer led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Root revisits what led to the historic legislation ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Summer is right around the corner and some of the events — and things you buy — could seem a little cheaper than last year. During the 2023 Florida Freedom Summer Sales Tax ...

Miami University honors Wil Haygood with the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award on Nov. 14 during an event at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. The invitation-only award ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Hattiesburg native Raylawni Branch is a civil rights activist and was one of the first two African-American students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. She ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The historic ‘Freedom Summer’ of 1963 will be celebrated in the ...

As part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, civil rights groups ran summer schools to educate Black children. We hear from six former students who look back on their experiences. Time now for ...

From 1961 to 1964, a multi-racial group of young, trained activists from the North were shuttled by bus to states in the South in an effort to end segregation and register Black voters during the ...

During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss. In this special “Post Reports” episode, ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - During Black History Month, markers across Hattiesburg are drawing attention to the people and places connected to the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign. But for some residents, ...

Idealism drove hundreds of college students to Mississippi 50 years ago. In 1964, civil rights activist Bob Moses led the campaign to register black voters and educate black children in that state. It ...

June 21, 1964, was an ordinary day for many Americans, but for three civil rights workers in Mississippi, it was the day their lives would end, and the fires of the civil rights movement were stoked, ...

As technology continues to reshape every aspect of life, churches face the challenge of evolving their practices to remain relevant and effective. Just as communion and worship have evolved from ...