Freedom riders

Telling 436 stories in one documentary.

Pascal Boyer, the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis, has made confronting questions of tremendous scope and complexity something of a habit. His book Religion Explained addressed the origins of religious thought, and his new book, Minds Make Societies, brazenly tackles questions like: Why is there conflict between groups? What explains morality? What is social justice?Much to the benefit of his students, Boyer takes the same…

Freedom Riders: Then

These are the mug shots of the Freedom Riders as they were arrested in 1961. Most of them were sent to the brutal Parchman Prison in Mississippi. These are only 32 of the 400 riders who fought for Freedom.

Freedom Riders Stokely Carmichael, Gwendolyn Green, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland were arrested, on #tdih in 1961, along with Jan Triggs, Rev. Robert...

The powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever.

This is the 55th anniversary of a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.