Category Archives: history

Stax

Jim Stewart founded Satellite Records in Memphis, TN in 1957. As an amateur musician, Stewart...

The Treaty of Point Elliott

The Salish Sea sends a gentle breeze that washes over the senses near the Rosehill...

Equal Justice Initiative

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) was founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson. The organization provides...

The Killing of Antonio Zambrano-Montes

In an area known as the Tri-Cities in Washington, there is a colorful intersection at...

Hip Hop at 50

Today is the first day of fall quarter for our friends at the University of...

Latinx Heritage Month: The Chicano Movement

Movements for civil rights in the 1960s around the United States inspired people from different...

Little Rock Nine

Concrete benches line a reflecting pool ahead of a giant building with the words Little...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the largest long distance forced movement of people in human...

Freedom Summer

On the side of an old country road in Neshoba County, Mississippi stands a lonely...

Whitney Plantation

Opening in 2014, Whitney Plantation was the first plantation turned museum that focused on enslavement...