Civil Rights

A coalition of civil rights groups and Baltimore residents filed a federal complaint Monday claiming Gov. Larry Hogan's decision to cancel the planned Red…

This story begins on the night of February 22, 1960, on St. Paul Street near the campus of Johns Hopkins University—and we will never know the end of…

When you get on the civil rights train, you can never get off. That was the late Parren Mitchell’s urging. Contemporary events, if nothing else, prove him…

Would we know how often our citizens are brutalized by the police if a newspaper had not laid it out so dramatically – and authoritatively?Fortunately,…

In his last essay of 2013, WYPR’s Senior News Analyst Fraser Smith remembers Pastor Vernon Dobson and his good friend, Homer Favor. Both died this…

During the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1963 March on Washington, speakers often told of those who worked hard, but didn’t get the recognition…

Just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous 'dream' speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, white and black children rode a…

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, WYPR News collected stories from listeners and readers. Click above to…

Ed Warfield, white, a retired Episcopal clergyman, was 30 years old in 1963. At the time he was serving as Vicar of the Chapel of the Ascension in East…

12 years old in August 1963, black, grew up in South Baltimore, Congressman for Maryland’s 7th district. Rep. Cummings wasn't at The March On Washington,…