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Civil Rights

Podcast: Big Apple Inn

A humble hole-in-the-wall with a serious civil rights history.

The Podcast Team March 6, 2023

Podcast: The Hampton House

Inside the childhood home of a civil rights icon.

The Podcast Team February 28, 2023

Olympic Black Power statue

7 Places to Celebrate Black Athletes

These monuments and memorials honor their groundbreaking accomplishments.

Jonathan Carey February 17, 2023

The Secret History & Hidden Wonders of Charlotte, North Carolina

Between tree-lined streets and a boom town feel, Charlotte surprises with a deep-rooted history and plenty of must-see spots.

Sponsored by Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.”

7 Places Dedicated to the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Honoring the memory of a hero of the Civil Rights Movement.

Jonathan Carey January 13, 2023

There is much to be learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movements beyond memorable public events such as this 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C.

4 Surprising Reads for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

He's a towering figure in history, but his story is far from complete.

April White January 13, 2023

Cleveland, Ohio

House of Wills

This Cleveland mansion has played host to a German singing group, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a funeral parlor, and many civil rights meetings.

Fire Station 6

Atlanta, Georgia

Fire Station No. 6

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

7 Places to Eat, Drink, and Overthrow the Establishment

Raise a glass at these former favored haunts of some of history’s biggest movers and shakers.

Diana Hubbell March 7, 2022

Women of the Indigenous Purépecha community, here shown in line for local elections, have always taken an active role in the politics of Cherán, Mexico. Local legend even tells of a woman named Eréndira, who stole horses from Spanish invaders and led a rebellion against the colonialists.

14 Women Activists Whose Names You Should Know

These feminist editors, swimming suffragists, and renegade cooks reshaped the world.

Sarah Durn March 3, 2022

12 Extraordinary Women-Run Restaurants Around the World

From feminism to civil rights, there's more on their menus than delicious food.

Sam O'Brien March 1, 2022

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

Washington, D.C.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

Monson Steps

St. Augustine, Florida

Monson Steps

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

After closing in 2008 and becoming an online museum in 2012, America's Black Holocaust Museum reopened in February 2022 in a sleek new building in Milwaukee's Bronzeville, the historic hub of the city's Black community.

A Revived Museum Presents the Full History of Black America

America's Black Holocaust Museum reopens in the historic hub of Milwaukee's African American community.

Beck Salgado February 24, 2022

The Paul Robeson House & Museum

An American Civil Rights Tour

In the footsteps of freedom.

Jonathan Carey February 24, 2022

America's Black Holocaust Museum reopened in a new building in February 2022.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

America's Black Holocaust Museum

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Gordon Parks captured this image of protest on the streets of Harlem in 1963. It is among 222 pictures by the famed Black photographer recently acquired by Yale University.

A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks

Yale has acquired some of the Black photographer’s best-known images.

April White February 2, 2022

A bowl of chitlins.

Chitlins

These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.