To mark the start of Black History Month, a Classicist reflects on the inspiration King drew from ancient Greek culture.
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If Flint, Michigan were an affluent suburb, would residents have been exposed as long to drinking toxic water? Pioneering scholar Robert Bullard calls Flint’s crisis a classic case of environmental discrimination
The bathroom has become a battleground for transgender rights — and rightfully so. Research shows that bathroom restrictions threaten the health and safety of the transgender community.
What can Star Trek teach us about today’s trek of life?
Why the recent Supreme Court case on gay marriage could make a huge difference for racial justice.
Racial inequality in America has its parallel in caste inequality in India. What can the world’s two largest democracies learn from each other?
Caitlyn Jenner evokes Demi Moore’s controversial 1991 Vanity Fair cover shoot, done when pregnancy was something to be hidden.
A defeat for Indigenous constitutional recognition would be disastrous and demoralising. But history tells us that even worthy proposals with bipartisan support are not assured of success.
A year ago, a military coup toppled Thailand’s elected government. The junta promised elections once a new constitution is adopted, but its authoritarian rule betrays a hostility to real democracy.
Empathy, a trait built into the human character, can be taught and practiced by both police and communities to improve relations.
History is not a ‘thing’ to be memorized, as some in the Oklahoma legislature might believe, but a living process, to be understood in all its complexity.
Last month President Obama welcomed the film Selma into the White House – a first-family showing that, as it happens, occurred a century after the first-ever screening of a movie inside the White House…
Until 1950 the Red Cross segregated blood. It was thousands of African-Americans during World War II who forced the Red Cross to include them as donors and helped pave the way for activism of the 1960s.
In the spring of 1950, Gordon Parks, the first African-American photographer for Life Magazine, returned to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas. On assignment for the magazine, Parks photographed his middle…
Black History Month provides an opportunity to pull back the curtain and turn the spotlight on individuals who made a difference in the successes of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. I had the…
The public response to the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner has been compared to the 1960s civil rights movement. There are many differences between what happened 50 odd years ago and today but…
Hollywood films that depict American history deeply influence our sense of national identity. Films that portray Civil Rights and Black Freedom history are particularly important. Beyond entertaining moviegoers…
The civil rights movement produced many different types of leaders. Thurgood Marshall, argued successfully before the Supreme Court that racial segregation laws violated the US Constitution. Diane Nash…
It’s been almost 60 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. became a household name during the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and some may find it astonishing that, until the recent release of Selma, he’s…
The Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Bill – locally known as the “anti-protest” bill – was passed by Tasmanian parliament late on Tuesday night. The law was introduced as part of the government’s…
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Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor of History, Deakin University
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of History, Morehouse College
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Education and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of History; Director Center for Civil Rights History and Research, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
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Professor, Florida State University
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon