Social Movements, Rights & Identity

5+ hour, 41+ min ago   (106+ words) A photo exhibition imagines the life 14-year-old Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago....

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (374+ words) Alumni from Birmingham City Schools born in 1963 came together at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to commemorate the events of that transformative year and reflect on the Civil Rights Movement's impact on Birmingham and the nation. Attendees highlighted 1963 as a…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (649+ words) A wall can look like a border from above, but archaeologists test the idea through gates, roads, visibility, construction layers and excavation context. A line of stones can look decisive from the air. It may curve around a mound, cut…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (860+ words) Por Jacopo Prisco, CNN Un nuevo análisis de la red de calzadas del Imperio Romano ha desmentido el persistente mito de que “todos los caminos llevan a Roma”, demostrando en cambio que otras ciudades importantes —como Constantinopla, la actual Estambul…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1245+ words) Tour guide Mike Christiansen said Bromborough Pool, which includes this Grade II-listed village hall built in 1858, was a "forgotten village" in contrast with nearby Port Sunlight While Port Sunlight on the Wirral is a well-known example of an industrial model…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (488+ words) Winnie McHugh’s brief conversation with President Catherine Connolly came some 75 years after she left Co Donegal for Scotland in search of work, but the 92-year-old’s command of the Irish language has never waned in the interim. You never forget the…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (256+ words) Daily Kos This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. Eighty-five years ago, Emmett Till was born in Chicago and lived only 14 years before he was abducted and lynched while visiting family in Mississippi....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (815+ words) Professionally, he was a lawyer and he helped run a relief agency for sick and wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. But insofar as George Templeton Strong (1820–1875) is remembered today, it is as a diarist: “the greatest diarist”, as…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (544+ words) Afro-Latinos have a rich and complex history in America, shaped by their diverse African and Latin American roots. Every year, from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the histories, cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans. But…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (643+ words) When Gwendolyn Sanders Gamble was part of civil-rights efforts in Birmingham as a teenager in the 1960s, she never thought a facility like the new Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Education and Visitor Center would be built. On Tuesday, after a ribbon-cutting…...