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Officials at the University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy brought in members of storied improv theater ...

An occasional series about southern New Jersey residents who recently died, leaving lasting marks on their community, their neighborhood, their friends or families.

On Juneteenth, I draw strength from the rich history of Black communities’ struggles for environmental justice.

♪♪ I was a civil rights worker in Quitman County, Mississippi, in 1964, and the experience of seeing what was under the covers in America suddenly gave you a whole new perspective.

Viola Liuzzo. The shooting death of Liuzzo took place on Route 80 in Lowndesboro, Alabama, as she and Leroy Moton, another civil rights worker, drove marchers back and forth from Montgomery to ...

The murders were dramatized in the 1988 Oscar-winning movie Mississippi Burning. "My heart was with them," said Harriet Rosenberg of Mahopac, who graduated from Pelham a year before Schwerner.

Aaron interviews Civil Rights Icon Congressman John Lewis. ... a rural Mississippi or Georgia or Tennessee to the ... the folder girls, the three civil rights worker that was murdered 50 years ago.

O’Donnell invoked the 1964 murder of civil rights worker Michael Schwerner in Mississippi while reflecting on the firing of Reid. “It looked hopeless in 1964,” O’Donnell said.

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in America, especially during the pivotal years between 1955 and 1968. Here ...