C.T. Vivian Freedom Rider

Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists met at Xavier University on Wednesday to honor a group of Freedom Riders after they finally completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans 65 years after the original trip was halted. The original ride, the first in a series of trips to protest Jim Crow laws, was interrupted when a segregationist mob firebombed their buses in Anniston, Alabama.

Don’t get out your checkbook to buy a landmark associated with Alabama’s Freedom Riders. The Trump White House identified the Montgomery bus station that now serves as a museum to that time in the state’s civil rights history for sale. That is until the administration deleted the list.

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund will honor a civil rights activist with a lifetime achievement award this week. Spokeswoman…