Fifty-six years have passed since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The legislation represented the first major social justice accomplishment...
John Lewis is one of the few architects of the modern Civil Rights Movement still living, having moved from the firebrand voice of the Student Nonviolent...
Geraldine Jones and her family planned to mark the end of summer with their biennial reunion usually attended by loved ones from around the country. But,...
In this new season where Americans are eager to change longstanding policies considered impediments to equality, several major companies have announced that Juneteenth will become a...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today addressing concerns about police misconduct and violence which have triggered weeks of primarily peaceful demonstrations following the murder...
Weeks of protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a white former police officer in Minneapolis who kneeled for almost eight...
As the protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a former white police officer in Minneapolis enter the third week, we...
In Minneapolis today, hundreds gathered to say farewell to George Floyd, the unarmed 46-year-old Black man killed last week by a white police officer who knelt...
When a Florida jury acquitted Trayvon Martin’s killer in July 2013, the verdict dashed hopes of justice for the 17-year-old stalked and fatally shot by a...
Protests spread across the country in the wake of the murder of George Floyd with rioters in some cities distracting from the message of racial equality...