Join us for the party! I am still working on my book about the 1967 Algiers Motel murders in Detroit. But you can hear a sneak peak of my findings at the launch party for a new book on the 1967 Detroit uprising. This collection of essays...
This was probably one of the highlights of my career (so far). In this panel put together by the Central Ohio Transit Center, I joined a conversation with SNCC Freedom Singers Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, and Betty Mae Fykes about the...
Listen to an interview between Danielle McGuire and Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY in Philadelphia (2010) You know one story about Rosa Parks, but not this one: The woman who gained worldwide fame when she “refused to give up her seat” on a Montgomery...
Episode 83 I Black History Month – “At The Dark End Of The Street” with Danielle McGuire and Beth Hubbard Author of “At The Dark End Of The Street” Danielle McGuire, and Producer of “The Rape of Recy Taylor” Beth Hubbard, provide a powerful...
I joined “Left of Black” hosted by Mark Anthony Neal at Duke University for a fantastic discussion about the role of women, gender and sexual violence in the civil rights movement. We talked about my book, At the Dark End of the...
Here is my latest opinion piece in the Hollywood Reporter on the new film about Nat Turner. Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation team ask viewers to take history seriously and to grapple with the most painful parts of America’s past...
This lecture was presented as the Belle McWilliams Lecture for the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis. Recorded by Marty Deull in March 2015.
In my acceptance speech for the Lillian Smith Award, I talked about how the Southern Regional Council’s oral history project “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” made me rethink the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the role of women and...
(CNN) – In the wake of Barack Obama’s second inauguration, it is easy to forget about the daily indignities and terror African-Americans have endured; easy to forget that simply surviving segregation required ordinary people to engage in...
I loved this freewheeling conversation with Stephen Henderson about Rosa Parks; the long history of black women’s organizing that led to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott; and how we teach and talk about the civil rights movement today.
By Danielle McGuire, Special to CNN (CNN) – In 2011, Rosa Parks was in the news, six years after her death. An excerpt from a breathtaking essay she wrote in the 1950s about a “near rape” by a white man in Alabama was released to the...
On Thursday, I went to Washington DC to honor Recy Taylor and to “reintroduce” Rosa Parks as a militant detective and fierce activist for human dignity and civil rights at the National Press Club. We started the day with a private...
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