Director and choreographer Tyler Thomas discusses co-directing the riveting musical We Shall Someday, which follows a Freedom Rider in the early 1960s, his daughter in
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVcWDH96Rbo[/embedyt] The Godfather of Harlem mid-season finale is here and will air on Sunday, May 23. Episode 206, titled “The Ballot or the Bullet,”
Imagine it is 1961: lunch counter desegregation, Freedom Riders under siege by firehoses, police dogs, bombs and white mobs. Playwright Jireh Breon Holder’s Too Heavy
In 1966, a group of young blacks in Oakland, California formed the Black Panthers. It would become one of the country’s largest, self-help organizations to
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most pivotal civil rights events to take place — Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Led by
On Sunday, Feb. 22, 2014, at St. Luke Community U.M.C., the congregation witnessed living history. We were blessed with profound words from Congressman John Lewis,
I often write about my recollections of the Civil Rights Movement as a child growing up in Memphis, Tenn., particularly about the death of Martin
