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civil rights movement

  • Martha and the Vandellas: The Motown ‘divas’ who recorded a civil rights anthem

    Martha and the Vandellas: The Motown ‘divas’ who recorded a civil rights anthem

    Austin McCoy, The Conversation
    · Apr 19, 2026 · 10:00 pm
  • Unforgettable: Nat King Cole’s quiet battle against racism in the US

    Unforgettable: Nat King Cole’s quiet battle against racism in the US

    Donna M Cox, The Conversation
    · Feb 28, 2025 · 10:00 pm
  • Beyond the dream: What India can learn from Martin Luther King Jr’s lessons for public change

    Beyond the dream: What India can learn from Martin Luther King Jr’s lessons for public change

    Anshul Rai Sharma
    · Jan 25, 2025 · 06:30 am
  • Singer, civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96

    Singer, civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 25, 2023 · 08:50 pm
  • ‘Bloody Sunday’: When police violence against John Lewis shook America’s conscience

    ‘Bloody Sunday’: When police violence against John Lewis shook America’s conscience

    Aniko Bodroghkozy, The Conversation
    · Jul 25, 2020 · 11:30 pm
  • Duke Ellington tribute: The jazz musician used his songs to tell a powerful story of black life

    Duke Ellington tribute: The jazz musician used his songs to tell a powerful story of black life

    Earl Brooks, The Conversation Michelle R Scott, The Conversation
    · Apr 29, 2019 · 09:30 pm
  • When Howard Thurman met Gandhi and brought nonviolence to America’s civil rights movement

    When Howard Thurman met Gandhi and brought nonviolence to America’s civil rights movement

    Walter E Fluker, The Conversation
    · Feb 01, 2019 · 08:30 pm
  • Aretha Franklin: How the sublime soul diva’s voice influenced the civil rights movement

    Aretha Franklin: How the sublime soul diva’s voice influenced the civil rights movement

    Leah Kardos, The Conversation
    · Aug 17, 2018 · 08:30 pm
  • Martin Luther King Jr had a dream – but it was much more radical than just racial brotherhood

    Martin Luther King Jr had a dream – but it was much more radical than just racial brotherhood

    Paul Harvey, The Conversation
    · Apr 03, 2018 · 08:30 pm
  • What Ambedkar's anti-caste struggle shared with the US civil rights movement

    What Ambedkar's anti-caste struggle shared with the US civil rights movement

    Christopher Queen
    · Oct 14, 2016 · 06:30 am