Civil Rights & Social Justice
Black community leaders fight voting rights threats, entrepreneurs revitalize neighborhoods, and Black music icons honored in cultural legacy.
Activist Matthew Pridgen confronts racial injustice rooted in the white Christian community, calling for truth and action to address systemic oppression.
From an erroneous Threads takedown to pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells, Black journalists have always been a target.
Rev. Stephen Green of Greater Allen AME Cathedral discusses faith-based organizing, the liberating gospel, and the Black church's 200+ year legacy of resistance in Queens, NY.
Organizers have said the core message of this year’s “May Day Strong” protests is about the government "focusing on workers over billionaires."
Silvia Lopez-Navarro, a white woman with a hispanic last name, filed a federal class-action lawsuit because she was not allowed into a program that supports Black mothers and their babies.
Attacking civil rights groups like SPLC follows a pattern and practice of the administration’s revisionist terror and political prosecutions. We can’t afford to look away.
Last summer, Charles Adair died while incarcerated in a Kansas jail after a sheriff’s deputy knelt on his back for over 90 seconds.
From courtrooms to outer space, from concert halls to the halls of Congress, these extraordinary black women did not just break barriers they dismantled them, rebuilt what came after, and made the impossible inevitable for those who followed. They walked into rooms that were never designed with them in mind and left behind blueprints for […]
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a federal administration full of proud white nationalists has no business taking it upon itself to assess Black health, the needs of Black children or that of the Black community in general. Actually, I know exactly who needs to hear this: Health and Human Services Secretary […]
Vogue's 'cloud bob' controversy highlights cultural appropriation, the power of prestige media, and the need for diverse voices.
We don’t have to look overseas to find examples of how communities are blocking the far-right and building power to address issues impacting us at all levels of government.