Lottie L. Joiner

Lottie L. Joiner is the senior editor of The Crisis Magazine. She has written for The Washington Post, USA Today and Essence Magazine

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Mississippi Burning

Case Closed On Freedom Summer Murders

52 years ago today, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner went missing—and the state has finally given up hope that their murderers will be brought to justice.

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CHANGING HISTORY

Ken Burns on Jackie Robinson’s Rebellion

The new two-part PBS documentary Jackie Robinson examines the legendary, boundary-breaking baseball player’s life beyond the field.

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TOWARD JUSTICE

How Emmett Till Changed the World

The brutal lynching of a Black teen in Mississippi helped shape the civil-rights movement and became the first Black Lives Matter case.

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American Heroes

‘Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired’

Fifty years ago, civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer spoke before the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City—and her speech became one of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Anniversary

The Bomb Heard Around the World

Fifty years ago four little girls were tragically killed during a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church. Birmingham, Alabama, native Carolyn McKinstry remembers that day.

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Case Closed On Freedom Summer Murders

Ken Burns on Jackie Robinson’s Rebellion

How Emmett Till Changed the World

‘Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired’

The Bomb Heard Around the World

From Bull Connor to Barack Obama