In 1963, Rev. James Bevel, along with several other key organizers, orchestrated a movement in Birmingham, AL known as the “Birmingham Children’s Crusade,”unique inthatitfeatured children astheprimary participants. As the policing…
In US culture, the media continuously portrays black men as masculine and oftentimes even hypermasculine figures. Yet within communities of black men, authorClyde Franklinobserved that “black gay men, because of their homosexuality, may not…
In Charles Hatfield’sAlternative Comic: An Emerging Literature, Hatfield describes alternative and underground comics as “vehicle[s] for the most personal and unguarded of revelations” that are “determine[d] to pushpastthe…
Black Like Me is a documentary-style film based on the 1961 nonfiction book, Black Like Me, by journalist John Howard Griffin. The film was released in 1964 and centers on a white journalist, John Finley Horton. Horton, whose story is based on the…