In a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi, Kwame Ture introduces the phrase “Black Power”

1965 SNCC’s first chair, Marion Barry, moves to Washington DC to open a SNCC chapter

A group of college students form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at another historically Black college in North Carolina, Shaw University

Four freshmen at historically Black North Carolina A&T sit at a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter and refuse to leave until they are served

Four freshmen at historically Black North Carolina A&T sit at a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter and refuse to leave until they are served

How Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC Came to Symbolize the Movement’s Tombstone

After the jackhammers finally fell silent and the pickaxes were put away, after the work crews dismantled the bollards, erased the big, bumblebee-yellow letters and repaved the two city blocks within the White House’s direct line of sight, Black Lives Matter Plaza was...