Day: March 2, 2021

The Freedom Riders Sixty Years Later: Californians On the Buses and Why We All Should Still Be Riding

Because those orientations remain ominously omnipresent in our country 60 years after the Freedom Rides, it is incumbent upon all of us to take a lesson from the courage of 1961 and continue to metaphorically “ride buses” for freedom, and battle the scourge of racism that has haunted the U.S. since slavery.