There is no more dramatic measure of the distance our society has traveled during the past half century than the fact that 50 years ago signing your name could be an act of extraordinary bravery. In ...
From Emmett Till to SNCC & Beyond: Words + Music + Art features a collective of performance and visual artists commemorating the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till's murder and the 65th anniversary of ...
Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica will present From Emmett Till to SNCC & Beyond: Words + Music + Art on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. The one-night-only benefit will commemorate ...
At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. By Sam Roberts A charismatic orator in the ...
The Root’s partner Slate.com has pulled together a photo gallery of images of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). The SNCC was central to the civil rights movement here in the United ...