Pushing the rock is what it feels like to fight racism in America. Not winning. Not losing. Just pushing.

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War mythical narrative that recasts the American Civil War in a romanticized light favorable to the defeated South.

At every turning point in our national story, when this country has been forced to choose between confronting that violence or accommodating it, it has almost always chosen appeasement.

John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry was not an attempted slave revolt—it was a daring strike to disrupt slavery itself. Here’s what most people get wrong.

We teach John Brown because his radical abolitionism—driven by fierce moral conviction—challenges complacency, reframes abolition history beyond white liberalism, and bridges 19th‑century courage to today’s struggles for justice.

Three short videos and some words in between

Songs like John Henry, Stagger Lee, and Railroad Bill are iconic in American folk music; they came from an instant in history when Black songwriters were free to write—AND SING—about badass women and men.

If this crown jewel had been implemented after the Civil War, American Democracy would be more functional today

Sanjana Bhambhani's ancestors fled their homeland during India's Partition – and her family gradually lost their mother tongue. Can she now reclaim it?

Mr. Sule Greg Wilson recorded his new original, The Ballad of Homer Plessy in a studio in Phoenix, Arizona as part of his participation in the John Brown Project’s Pushing the Rock film

An excerpt from Ida B. Wells’ book is explained by Dr. Manisghha Sinha in this sketch of what will become a dramatization featuring Ms. Effie Mwando as Ida Wells.

Dr. Manisha Sinha explains the origin of White people and Slave codes which evolved into Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Nazi Nuremberg Laws, and South African Apartheid

Revolutionizing Historical Education Through Art, Music, and Storytelling

Dan Morrison of The John Brown Project and Jacque Williams of Culture 4 A Cause join Tavis Smiley to talk about John Brown’s life, legacy, and lessons to be learned from him.

Listen to this podcast episode by one of our advisors, Dr. Louis A. DeCaro, Jr, on the winter holidays through a John Brown lens

Three songs, three gourd banjos, one hell of an artist

The official early trailer is here! Pushing the Rock is told in. three acts.

"...the subject of this interview is unique to me because we are talking about the most pressing problem in America today… the question of race in America."

Reconstruction didn't fall, it was pushed; Dr. Manisha Sinha prosecutes the case thoughtfully and dissects it completely in this comprehensive history of a small slice of America's past.

The history award is an extension of the state-level award Culture 4 A Cause won in 2023