Thanks to students, more FBI files on Klan violence could be released

Aditya Shah was a junior at Hightstown High School in New Jersey in 2015 when he and his AP Government and Politics classmates began studying cold cases involving Ku Klux Klan murders in the South.

John Lewis “stood for everything that is good.”

Myrlie Evers remembered Congressman John Lewis as a fearless civil rights leader who “stood for everything that is good, everything that is strong and everything that is merciful.”

In Ferriday, La., an ‘outlaw town,’ the Deacons took a stand

FERRIDAY, La. -- David Whatley, the first black student to integrate Ferriday High in 1966, returned from tortuous days at school only to face just as many threats outside his home.

Confederate battle flag comes down in Mississippi; Myrlie Evers weeps. ‘Medgar’s wings must be clapping.’

Myrlie Evers began to weep when she heard the Mississippi Legislature vote to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

Ole Miss reaches crossroads in racial justice

The tipping point to a decades-long debate at Ole Miss came 900 miles from the north with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a police officer.

Deacons for Defense and Justice defied segregation

A dozen times over three decades, Claiborne Parish resident Frederick Douglass Lewis had tried to register to vote in Louisiana, only to be denied time after time.

In Bogalusa, La., the Deacons fought violence with violence

BOGALUSA, La.--Fiery red dust filled the air as Henry Austan, a 21-year-old insurance bill collector for an African-American agency, sped down a Washington Parish dirt road during the early spring of 1965.

La. cops supported the Klan’s intimidation tactics. So the Deacons for Defense rose to protect black neighborhoods.

On a July night in Jonesboro, Louisiana, in 1964, the rumble of engines encroached on a quiet, black neighborhood then known as “The Quarters.” As residents stepped out onto their porches, they observed a line of cars—maybe 50 in all—with two to four men in each vehicle, their faces covered by white hoods.

A pandemic has hit America. When are we going to deal with it?

The pandemic started far from our nation, but the disease soon struck our shores.

Our leaders downplayed the possible harm, and before long, Americans began to be infected at an alarming rate.

George Floyd’s killing resurrects nightmares for families of civil rights martyrs

The scenes play over and over again in the mind of civil rights pioneer Myrlie Evers.

A white police officer in Minneapolis kneels on the neck of a black man who keeps saying, “I can’t breathe,” until he lies motionless.

Sins of their fathers haunt these children of Klansmen

Children of Klansmen are sometimes haunted by the sins of their fathers.