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Civil rights

Morehouse College President David Thomas
MLK Commemoration
Honoring MLK Jr.'s life and legacy
Published Jan 17, 2025
43rd annual MLK Commemoration includes remarks by Morehouse President David Thomas, presentation of awards for community service and outstanding contributions to the institution
Poly and Johns Hopkins students look at Baltimore Civil Rights exhibit
History
Students united
Published Nov 7, 2022
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute students and Hopkins undergrads come together to learn about Baltimore's civil rights history
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Common read
An activist's history
Published Aug 29, 2018
First-year students read, discuss Jo Ann Gibson Robinson's memoir 'The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It'
Otis and Edwina Moss
Race in America
Beyond 'I Have a Dream'
Published April 27, 2018
Friends of Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on his 'Drum Major Instinct' sermon of 1968
Choir singers perform
Race in America
A 'radically different' reflection
Published April 24, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.'s words fuel 'The Drum Major Instinct,' which comes to JHU on April 26
Yellowed newspaper clipping of riot police
Hopkins history
'A time of great pain'
Published April 11, 2018
JHU's Homewood campus was largely insulated from the unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, but many on campus were moved to action
Harriet Tubman
Women's history month
Harriet Tubman, real-life action hero
Published March 8, 2018
Maryland-born abolitionist and humanitarian is 'as heroic as it gets,' says historian N. D. B. Connolly
Minnijean Brown Trickey
MLK Commemoration
Civil rights icon Minnijean Brown Trickey headlines annual event
Published Jan 9, 2018
She was a member of the Little Rock Nine, nine teens selected to desegregate Central High School in Arkansas in 1957 after Brown v. Board of Education decision
Judah Adashi plays piano
Q+A
'Rise' revisited
Published April 14, 2016
Peabody's Judah Adashi brings his choral reflection on America's civil rights struggles to Baltimore
Bree Newsome
Flagpole protest
Taking down an 'intolerable' symbol
Published Feb 11, 2016 Video
Bree Newsome, who brought down Confederate flag in S.C., speaks at JHU