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Book Review: “The Movement” — The Struggle for Civil Rights, Abbreviated

The Movement works best as a stripped-down, high-speed introduction to the struggle for civil rights, nothing more.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: civil rights, Oxford University Press, The Movement, Thomas C. Holt

Fuse Film Review: “Selma” — Civil Rights By the Numbers

Selma doesn’t dare to offer the viewer anything new.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ava DuVernay, civil rights, David Oyelowo, Martin Luther King, Paul Dervis, Selma

Author Interview: Historian Jason Sokol on Race and Massachusetts — From the Red Sox to Springfield

“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn, Blake Maddux, civil rights, Edward Brooke, Jason Sokol, race, Red Sox, There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights

Book Interview: No Guns — No Civil Rights?

“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Blake Maddux, Charles E. Cobb, civil rights, Guns, Harvard Book Store, How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed

Music Preview: East Coast Premiere of an Opera about the Fight for Civil Rights –“Dark River”

Fanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: civil rights, Dark River, Mary Watkins, Mount Holyoke College, Opera

Film Review: “The Last White Knight” — A Vision of Racism Perpetuated

In the mesmerizing “The Last White Knight,” documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him during the civil rights movement.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Boston Jewish Film Festival, civil rights, documentary, Paul Saltzman, The Last White Knight

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