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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82

By: Paul Vitello —
A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, then known as H. Rap Brown, in 1967. At the time, he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest

By: Richard Fausset —
The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

Students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall in April 1972.

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How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement

By: Kurtis Lee —
The 1968 action led to greater economic mobility for Black workers. Today, union activists are trying to capture some of that spirit.
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‘I Have a Dream,’ Yesterday and Today

By: Darren Sands —
At the March on Washington, where thousands gathered on Saturday to renew the call for equality, participants reflected on Martin Luther King’s historic speech and its themes in the present.

People listened to speakers during the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday.

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