American History for Truthdiggers: Civil Rights, a Dream Deferred

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig May 4, 2019 The struggle—far from finished—was never as finite or clear-cut as the myth that persists in our collective memory. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )

America Has Desegregated in Name Only

Paul Street / Truthdig Nov 28, 2018 More than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, people of color remain confined to the most destitute corners of the country. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Peace First

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Dec 19, 2017 Want to make America great? Demand an end to war—at home and abroad—as Martin Luther King Jr. did. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Parks and Kim

Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune. Cagle Cartoons Sep 10, 2015 Dig deeper

John Legend and Common’s Performance of ‘Glory’ Is a Special Moment at the Oscars

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Feb 23, 2015 With lyrics honoring Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and even the Ferguson protest movement, musicians John Legend and Common had many Academy Awards attendees in tears. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rosa Parks: A Life

By Gabriel Thompson Feb 27, 2013 Nearly 60 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott comes "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," the first scholarly biography of the woman who risked much and spoke little. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Rosa Parks, Now and Forever

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 31, 2013 On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Happy Birthday, Howard Zinn

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 24, 2012 The beloved historian, social activist and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” would have turned 90 years old on Friday. "Democracy Now!" remembers Zinn with clips from speeches he gave near the end of his life. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israeli Segregation à la Rosa Parks

Staff / Truthdig Dec 19, 2011 An Israeli woman is relegated to the back of the bus by a group of Orthodox Jews; New York celebs party with the Occupiers; and studying fish may be the key to understanding why uninformed voters are a necessary evil in our democracy. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Controversy Over Rosa Parks Account of a ‘Near-Rape’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2011 Rosa Parks, "mother of the civil rights movement," was discovered recently to have written a first-person account of a young black housekeeper being sexually accosted by a white man, but whether she was describing something that happened to her or was writing a work of fiction is uncertain. (An earlier version of this Truthdig item was based on an AP report that changed afterward when new information surfaced.) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Muslim Women Protest Through Prayer at D.C. Mosque

Staff / Truthdig Mar 2, 2010 On Feb. 20, four Muslim women took a conspicuous step to protest gender segregation in Muslim mosques by refusing to relegate themselves to a cordoned-off prayer zone for women -- which one of them ruefully called the "penalty box" -- and instead worshiped with the men at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. Their presence did not go unnoticed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )