Author Kim Salzman has fictionalized Operation Moses in her new book, “Straddling Black and White,” about an Ethiopian-Jewish family that is torn apart during the mission. It tells the story ...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the ...

Bob Moses, a soft-spoken pioneer of the civil rights movement who faced relentless intimidation and brutal violence to register Black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s, and who later started a ...

The book, an exhortation to Black Americans to stand together to survive both white racism and Gilded Age capitalism, helped Moses understand more about his father’s work and life, as well.

One illustration depicted Moses as an 18th-century Hasidic Jew clad in a shtreimel (fur hat) and long kapote (robe), with abundant sidelocks flowing down to his shoulders.

A general view of a statue of Robert Moses, the "master builder" who reshaped New York’s highways, bridges and parks on June 18, 2020 in Babylon, New York.

ASH GROVE, Mo. When he moved back home here 12 years ago, the Rev. Moses Berry wanted to settle down to small-town life with his wife and two children. He did not intend to become a one-man racial ...