Tag: Civil Rights Movement (1954-68)

A Year After a Fiery Voting Rights Speech, Biden Delivers a More Muted Address

Mr. Warnock, however, said in his victory speech that night that he…

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Jackie Robinson Museum Focuses on Civils Rights and Baseball

Jackie Robinson’s family home in Stamford, Conn., had a den featuring trophies,…

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When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital

When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father…

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Clifford L. Alexander, Adviser to Presidents, Is Dead at 88

Clifford L. Alexander Jr., whose long career as a leading adviser to…

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From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen

WASHINGTON — After Lenny Pozner’s six-year-old son Noah died at Sandy Hook,…

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The 17th-Century English Judge Behind Abortion and Rape Rulings Today

Reporting trips, for me, are always an exercise in finding similarities among…

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Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94

Sidney Poitier, whose portrayal of resolute heroes in films like “To Sir…

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2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated

At the trial in 1966, prosecutors cast Mr. Islam, who was once…

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