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Honoring John Lewis’ Vision on Bloody Sunday

Trey Walk / Facing South Mar 5, 2024 He knew safeguarding democracy required far more than voting. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Protesters in front of the Home Office in London

Confronting Britain’s Legacy of Torture

By Alex Adams Nov 25, 2019 Like the U.S., France and many other countries, the United Kingdom has a sordid history of the practice. We need to face up to it. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Not Your Grandma’s Civil Rights Strategy

By Jon Else / TomDispatch Mar 28, 2017 In one now-historic decade, civil rights organizers brilliantly identified the levers of government power they could seize, but most of those levers are out of reach today. How will modern activists achieve change? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

In Selma, Memories of Bloody Sunday Spur Action Today

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Mar 13, 2015 Fifty years have passed since Bloody Sunday, that seminal event in United States civil-rights history when African-Americans and their allies attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., demanding the right to vote. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

German Captains, U-Boats and Other Lies About Ireland

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jun 19, 2010 By chance, I arrived in Dublin this week on the day that the Saville report on Bloody Sunday was published. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

British PM Apologizes for ‘Bloody Sunday’ Killings

Staff / Truthdig Jun 16, 2010 On Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron faced the daunting task of answering for one of the U.K.’s most volatile historical episodes: the so-called Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland in 1972. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )