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Installation view of black paintings by Torkwase Dyson on a white background
Freedom of Expression

Is Torkwase Dyson’s abstract recount of racial violence a missed opportunity?

Headshot of Kim Dowdell
The Architect-Developer

NOMA President Kim Dowdell on the politics of Detroit and the architecture profession

Rendering of sculpture featuring arms in a hug
The Embrace

Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group plan MLK and Coretta Scott King memorial

Aerial photo of three rotated brick masses
New Twist on History

nARCHITECTS’ Equal Rights Heritage Center frames the history around it

Madame Architect op-ed
Pay Attention

Stop asking where all the female architects are; we’re right here

Photo of mural being installed in Atlanta for Off the Wall and the Atlanta Super Bowl HostCommittee
Painting the Town

Atlanta puts up murals exploring the city’s civil rights legacy for Super Bowl LIII

Photo of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Grounds for Democracy

It’s high time to memorialize the South’s history of lynching

Photo of the reconstructed Rosa Parks house
A Place for Parks

Rosa Parks house reconstructed and put up for sale

Photo of the Lions Municipal Golf Course
Civil Dis-course

Civil rights landmark in Austin is threatened by development

A Call to Act

AIA Baltimore to recognize projects that advance social equity

Civil dis-course

Threatened landscape: A civil rights landmark in Austin

Building Ghosts

Absence is made tangible at the new national memorial to lynching victims

(Human Pictures/Equal Justice Initiative)
In Remembrance

America’s first memorial to victims of lynching opens in Montgomery

Artist Derrick Adams in his studio. (Courtesy The Museum of Arts and Design)
Art-Driven

Jim Crow-era restrictions on black travel and leisure are reimagined in multimedia show

(Courtesy Mark D. Van Ells)
Open Housing

Milwaukee 50 years later, where the fight for fair housing continues

At Fort Huachuca

U.S. Army to restore one of the last surviving WWII officers’ club for African American troops

"America’s rich, complex history"

New National Historic Landmarks in California celebrate Neutra and the civil rights movement

HUD Secretary Julian Castro touts new planning rules for affordable housing