Freedom Riders

For Black History Month, Ten Key Films on the African-American Experience

John Farr | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Denzel Washington, Civil Rights Movement, Academy Awards, Morgan Freeman, Martin Luther King Jr., Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Eyes on the Prize, Gospel Music, Documentary, Cicely Tyson, Martin Luther King Day, African Americans, Freedom Riders, Spike Lee Movies, Culture News

With Martin Luther King's birthday just past us, and Black History month coming up, the time seems right to celebrate those invaluable films that shed light on the black community's long struggle for equal rights in this country.

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Daddy's Girl: Honoring My Father's Legacy

Kirsten West Savali | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: George F. West Sr, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Wharlest Jackson, Bubber West, Freedom Riders, Racism, Integration, Natchez, Civil Rights Movement, Theodre Joseph "Bubber" West. Bubber West Alderman City of Natchez, Mississippi, Naacp, Black Voices Life, Black Voices News

My father was my umbrella; but he didn't just shelter and protect me. He molded me. He taught me the importance of community. I write this open tribute with no hesitation nor reservation to say that I am so proud to be his daughter.

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Facing Down the Law on Bus 148

Danielle C. Jefferis | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Palestinian Freedom Riders, Israel, Freedom Riders, World News

Inspired by the Southern Freedom Riders, the Palestinian Freedom Riders seek to shed light on Israel's racially discriminatory practices by boarding segregated buses on routes between illegal settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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I Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Set on Freedom

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Freedom Riders, Palestinian Freedom Riders, Palestine Freedom Riders, Israel-Palestine, Palestinian Territories, World News

Just as our Freedom Riders were primarily directed to awaken the conscience and sense of decency in the majority of white America, our Palestinian brothers and sisters are seeking to awaken the conscience of the world and a majority of Israelis.

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Best Films and More About Work, for Labor Day

Wyatt Closs | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Way Down in the Hole, Stanley Nelson, Wasteland, Made in Dagenham, Locked Out, A Better Life, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paul Giamatti, Ben Affleck, Miranda Richardson, Brazil, Even the Rain, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Hbo, Too Big to Fail, Ilwu, Wyatt Closs, Summit Entertainment, Kevin Costner, Freedom Riders, Colorado Coalfied War, Sally Hawkins, The Company Men, Chris Weitz, William Hurt, Miners, Curtis Hanson, Eric Eason, Freedom Rides, Demian Bichir, Popwork, Entertainment News

This Labor Day week, we take a look at a listing of nominees for best films, tv shows, and other artistic expressions in what are called the "2011 Workers' Voice Awards" from PopWork USA.

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Where Are They Now?: The Freedom Riders

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi, American History, Segregation, Freedom Rides, Black History, Congress-of-Racial-Equality, Freedom Riders, Black Voices News

Hank Thomas walked up the steps of the Greyhound bus on a sunny May 4, 1961. As he surveyed its drab, blue-gray interior, the lanky 19-year-old Africa...

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Hempstead Freedom Walkers Challenge Long Island Segregation

Alan Singer | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Hofstra University, Long Island, Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, Garden City, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders, Hempstead, New York News

Eighth-grade students in Hempstead, New York organized a Freedom Walk to honor the 1961 Freedom Riders and to make a statement that racial integration and equality should still be valued by our society today.

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The Music Of The Movement

Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Birmingham, Civil Rights Movement, Gospel Music, 16th Street Church, Martin Luther King, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Music and Religion, 2011 Freedom Ride, 16th Street Choir, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders, Religion News

In a church where four little girls lost their lives, angels still seem to be singing. Their songs are not of the pain left behind, but of freedom.

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The Rapture Effect: Finding The Church's Voice When It Really Matters

David A. Davis | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: May 21 Judgment Day, May 21 End of the World, Christian Church, Freedom Rides, May 21 Rapture, Christianity, Freedom Riders, Rapture, Religion News

It is much less a credit to Harold Camping's marketing machine, much less a problem with the obsessive behavior of the media, and much more an indictment of the rest of us who seek to bring faith and life together in relevant ways.

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"Sing Your Song": Harry Belafonte on Art and Politics, Civil Rights and His Critique of President Obama

Democracy Now! | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Sing-Your-Song, Harry Belafonte, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Haiti, Freedom Riders, Politics News

Tonight, PBS airs the documentary Freedom Riders, about the effort of students to end segregation in the South. Harry Belafonte was a supporter of the Freedom Riders, and is now the subject of the documentary Sing Your Song.

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American Commencement: Can the Class of 2011 Be the Freedom Riders of Tomorrow?

Curtis Valentine | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Howard University, Spelman College, Civil Rights Movement, Michelle Obama, Arab Spring, Freedom Riders, Public Service, Pew Research Center, Education News

On this, the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, it is time to reflect on how America can better prepare our new graduates to serve their communities and the world.

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Freedom Riders, by Any Other Name

Mary Daily | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: George Wallace, Freedom Riders, Racism, Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, Lillian Carter, Politics News

Freedom Riders, who arrived in the South 50 years ago this month in the cause of civil rights, were called something else in the segregated states upo...

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In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Freedom Riders

Black Voices | Trymaine Lee | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Pbs, Stanley Nelson, Civil Rights Movement, Congress on Racial Equality, Freedom Riders Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X, African Americans, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders, Politics News

Yesterday morning, as I stood across from where it all began at 1100 New York Avenue in Washington, D.C., and watched as the college kids linked arms ...

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Students Retrace 1961's Freedom Ride

AP | ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Pbs, Freedom Riders Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Riders, Freedom Rides 1961, College News

RICHMOND, Va. — Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to him: retracing the origina...

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Filmmaker Captures History, Emotion Of Freedom Riders

| Erin Chan Ding | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Civil Rights, Chicago Culture, Freedom Riders, Racism, Best of Chicago, Freedom Riders Film, Chicago Around Town, Stanley Nelson, Chicago News

Fifty years ago this May, a group of young blacks and whites in Washington D.C. boarded a bus to test a Supreme Court decision that segregation on int...

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Favorites from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

Roya Rastegar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Freebie, High Art, John Cooper, Freedom Riders, Tilda Swinton, Cherrie Curry, To Catch a Dollar, Park City, Tanya Hamilton, Floria Sigismondi, Adrian Grenier, Dakota Fanning, BILAL?S STAND, Detroit, Stanley Nelson, Luca Guardagnino, The KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, Jimmy Chi, Microlending, The Runaways, The TAQWACORES, Joan Jett, Los Angeles, A SMALL ACT, 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Greyhound, Mark Ruffalo, Eyad Zahra, Sam Green, Teenage Paparazzo, IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE, Kenya, BRAN NUE DAE, Julianne Moore, Katie Aselton, Samuel L. Jackson, Happythankyoumoreplease, Punk, Civil Rights, Anthony Mackey, I AM LOVE, Jennifer Arnold, New Frontier, Godard, Diane Bell, Kerry Washington, Kirsten Stewart, NIGHT CATCHES US, Naomi Watts, Jimmy Smits, Philadelphia, Islam, Sultan Shariff, UTOPIA in FOUR MOVEMENTS, Rachel Perkin, MOTHER and CHILD, Lisa Cholodenko, Rodrigo Garcia, Annette Bening, Dave Cerf, Documentary, Obseledia, Muhammad Yunus, Zeina-Durra, Sloan, Entertainment News

Utopia was not only moving but a reminder that there's power conjured through the experience of collectively watching cinema. For this reason, it aptly captures the spirit of rebellion that Sundance 2010 was all about.

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