13 moments that shaped a movement

On 2 November 2005, thousands of mourners crowded into the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit to attend the funeral of black American civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Former US president Bill Clinton led th

Five years ago, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests erupted across the US and globe following the horrific murder of George Floyd. ‘I can’t breathe’ became a rallying cry of the protests and wider movem

On the evening of 7th May 2025, three New York Police Department (NYPD) helicopters were hovering over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus in upper Manhattan. Police vans arrived soon aft

On a balmy spring evening in Omaha, Nebraska, Louise Little answered a knock at the door. She must have been terrified when she opened it and saw several knights of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback, dema

Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

THE MEMORY OF MALCOLM X remains in the public consciousness after he was immortalized in the biographical movie by Spike Lee. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of the leader and human rights activist still resonates on the 100th anniversary of his birth