As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the ... Explore their impact on the Civil Rights Movement below. As the NAACP's director of branches, Baker revolutionized grassroots organizing ...

Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture ... Bayard Rustin was the architect behind many of the civil rights movement’s most important victories, notably the 1963 ...

In her memoir, Height later wrote about Black men’s views toward Black women in the Civil Rights Movement: “(Black men) were happy to include women in the human family, but there was no ...

Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading ... broke ground Saturday — the close of Women’s History Month — for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ...

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Jemele Hill has upset thousands of people with her recent comments. CNN contributor Scott Jennings went toe-to-toe with the progressive writer over the Supreme Court allowing the Trump ...