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NCCHR Announces Truth-Telling Fellowship Microgrant Winners
Atlanta, Georgia – The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is proud to announce the recipients of the Truth-Telling Fellowship Microgrant, a program dedicated to truth-telling, memorialization, and community healing in Georgia. Focused on the historical and ongoing impacts
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights Announces Partnership with Norfolk Southern
Media Contact: Tenisha Griggs Senior Director, Marketing National Center for Civil and Human Rights [email protected] ATLANTA (March 14, 2025) – The National Center for Civil and Human Rights announced a new partnership with Norfolk Southern Corporation, reinforcing a shared
NCCHR Names New Wing for Former Mayor Shirley Franklin
Contact: Tenisha Griggs Senior Marketing Director National Center for Civil and Human Rights [email protected] ATLANTA (February 27, 2025) – The National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR) will name one of its new wings for its visionary founder, former
The Women’s Political Council: The Hidden Force Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest for violating segregation laws heightened public awareness of the Civil Rights Movement and elevated Dr. Martin Luther King,
The History of Black History Month
Black History Month was first observed as Negro History Week in February 1926, but the inspiration for the commemoration began over a decade earlier through a steady stream of electrifying events, discoveries, and other celebrations of Black excellence. In 1915,
NCCHR selected to join Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Program
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights will join a cohort of 200 nonprofit cultural organizations from across the U.S. and U.K. to improve essential digital infrastructure. Today, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights announced that it