Skip to content

Broad + Liberty

Thought-provoking and shareable ideas for
free thinkers in greater Philadelphia and beyond

Primary Menu
  • Latest
  • News
  • Op-Ed
  • About
    • Advertise on Broad + Liberty
  • Pitch B+L
  • Homicide Tracker
  • Search
  • Support B+L
  • Home
  • Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

History

Tim Hartman: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023
Tim Hartman

Cartoonist Tim Hartman recalls the legacy and message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Culture History

Stu Bykofsky: Why I reject ‘systemic racism’

December 2, 2020April 19, 2021
Stu Bykofsky
1

The moment of my real race awakening came in 1955 with the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi for supposedly flirting with a white woman.
By Stu Bykofsky

Civic Culture

Logan Chipkin: Bob Woodson’s last march

October 7, 2020July 28, 2021
Logan Chipkin
2

The Civil Rights icon (and Philly native) has gone from marching with Martin Luther King, Jr, to integrate West Chester, to spending a life working on our nation’s most complex issues of poverty and race. Now, at 83, he plans to save America.
By Logan Chipkin

Politics

Matthew Brooks: NAACP fails to stand against anti-Semitism in Philly

July 31, 2020April 19, 2021
Matthew Brooks

Delaware Valley NAACP president Rodney Muhammad has come under fire for posting a profoundly anti-Semitic meme on social media. The post included a misattributed Voltaire quote (actually from an American neo-Nazi), alongside an anti-Semitic cartoon of a Jewish caricature, clasping his hands and pushing down on a mass of people […]

Civic Culture

John McWhorter: We cannot allow ‘1619’ to dumb down America in the name of a crusade

May 24, 2020June 30, 2021
John McWhorter
7

The fundamental claim promoted by the New York Times’ 1619 Project — that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery — simply does not correspond with the facts. This false history will do more damage than its proponents realize.
By John McWhorter

Civic Culture

Logan Chipkin: Philadelphia Urban League leads the way in an era of big government

March 15, 2020April 19, 2021
Logan Chipkin

As free market advocates, it is incumbent upon us to answer the skeptic who thinks that poor people will starve in the streets absent the State. The Urban League of Philadelphia is one such answer, right in our own backyard.

Culture

Tigre Hill: Dr. King and Cecil Moore, very different men united in common cause

January 20, 2020April 19, 2021
Tigre Hill
2

One was a hard-charging Marine, the other a practitioner of nonviolent resistance. Segregation at Girard College didn’t stand a chance.
By Tigre Hill

Culture

Kevin Ferris: Dr. King’s rightful place in the history of Philly and the nation

January 20, 2020April 19, 2021
Intern B+L
2

Perhaps the civil rights leader’s most significant visit to Philadelphia was in 1959, when he posed for a Liberty Bell photo during a tour of Independence Hall.
By Kevin Ferris

Broad & Liberty

  • Latest
  • News
  • Op-Ed
  • About
    • Advertise on Broad + Liberty
  • Pitch B+L
  • Homicide Tracker
  • Search
  • Support B+L
Copyright All rights reserved
Read our privacy policy and our terms of use.