Fordham to Award 2021 Sperber Prize to Biographies of Civil Rights Reporter and War Correspondent
Kerri K. Greenidge’s biography Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter and…
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Danielle Citron, Legal Scholar and Digital Privacy Advocate, Earns MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant
Danielle Citron, LAW ’94, a legal scholar and civil rights advocate who writes about digital…
Q&A: Alumnus Recalls 1965 Selma March
On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the…
Veteran News Anchor Dan Rather on America’s National Identity: “The Heart of Patriotism is Humility”
In a time of deep political polarization, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather said…
Black History: Ralph Bunche’s World View of Race
To find a person whose life embodies the major milestones of a century is rare.…
Ever Rising: An Artist’s Take on the Ways We Remember—and Forget—the Troubled History of Race Relations in America
In a series of paper collages titled Everything That Rises, Fordham artist-in-residence Casey Ruble depicts…
University Mourns Legendary Communications Professor
Everett C. Parker, a longtime communications professor whose landmark court case and civil rights crusade…
50 Years Later, Reflecting Back on Legacy of Malcolm X
On Feb.21, 1965, civil rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in…
Scholars to Examine Race and U.S. Legal History
NEW YORK—Legal scholars and historians will re-examine “hidden gems” of the civil rights movement, telling…