Civil Rights

Arts & Culture
Civil Rights Photography Then and Now
On the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, an exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art in 2018 pulled together some of the most powerful images of the Civil Rights Movement

Food & Drink
Reviving a Nashville Civil Rights Landmark
This week, the historic Woolworth lunch counter reopens as Woolworth on 5th—and everyone’s invited

Music
Two Southern Trailblazers Get Their Due
Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe will be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2018

Arts & Culture
Picturing Mississippi
A new exhibition reflects two hundred years of state history

Arts & Culture
The Supreme Court’s Groundbreaking Southerner
Fifty years ago, the Senate confirmed Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice, to the bench

Food & Drink
Marcus Samuelsson’s Memphis Joyride
A world-famous New York chef with a taste for the South takes a rib-sticking, pork-laden, soul-lifting spin through the River City

Arts & Culture
Hampton Sides on Visiting the Lorraine Motel
Dwell on dreams at Room 306

The G&G Interview
G&G Interview: Congressman John Lewis
More than fifty years after his pivotal role in the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, Georgia congressman and civil-rights icon John Lewis marches on

Arts & Culture
The Lunch Counter
Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, a look at the past and promise of the most democratic restaurant space of all