Congressman John Lewis died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Lewis announced his diagnosis in December. He was 80-years-old. Lewis began his long history as a...
By an unanimous vote, the Asheville, North Carolina City Council made the extraordinary decision to provide reparations for African American residents and their descendants.
Americans are celebrating the nation’s birthday against the backdrop of a pandemic and weeks of social justice demonstrations. Is this year’s birthday part of a reset...
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...