Freedom Summer
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Convict in 1964 Civil-Rights Deaths Won’t Confess
JACK ELLIOTT JR., Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his…
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Freedom Summer: Violence and Nonviolence
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago this August 4, in the midst of the Civil Rights…
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Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer—Part II
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of…
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Child Watch: Marching Back to Mississippi
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Those of us in Mississippi last week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom…
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Continuing the Work of Freedom Summer
By Hollis Watkins Special to the Afro (The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country…
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Mobilizing Key Groups Can Change Politics of the Deep South
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As voters’ rights advocates and civil rights leaders commemorate the 50th…
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Freedom Summer—50 Years Later
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer is being commemorated this week in Mississippi and…
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Child Watch: From Freedom Summer to Freedom Schools
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As a brand new law school graduate in 1963 I was fortunate enough to…
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Pan African Film Festival Honors “Of Good Report”
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic/Travel Writer The 22nd annual Pan African Film Festival (http://www.paff.org) ran from February 6th to…
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