Half a century ago, a group of college students involved in the civil rights movement formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Raleigh, N.C. It became a national touchstone for ...

THE STRUGGLE against racism in the U.S. has a centuries-long history--and this month, that history itself has become a battlefield. Virginia's Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell began the month by ...

One thousand enthusiastic celebrants at the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee here were credited by a top White House official with making possible the Barack Obama ...

James Forman leads singing in the SNCC office on Raymond Street in Atlanta, (from left) Mike Sayer, MacArthur Cotton, Forman, Marion Barry, Lester McKinney, Mike Thelwell, Lawrence Guyot, Judy ...

Movements are made when people in motion outpace existing organizations and tactical urgency remakes the existing landscape. SNCC’s sense of urgency was always enmeshed in a global understanding of ...

Over a thousand gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and to pass the torch to a new generation. By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...