Civil rights

Civil rights forum convenes academics, activists, and advocates to deliberate urban policy issues

First roundtable focused on demographic trends, organizing and next-generation leadership, education, and poverty


Kim Grimshaw Bolton

The new civil rights movement doesn’t need an MLK

In op-ed, Prof. Cathy Cohen argues that grassroots movements and digital activism have replaced need for Civil Rights leaders


Nothing New in the Civil Rights Movement, but the Faces

In op-ed, Prof. Charles Payne argues that rather than starting a new movement for black equality, we need to 'finish the old one'


Remembering ‘Freedom Summer’

UChicago alumni recount the transformative events of 1964


Susie Allen