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Civil Rights & Social Justice

Memorial Day honors military sacrifice, Black history, and racial justice. Sybil Wilkes' segment explores these themes through personal stories.

DC is more than monuments, politics, and tourists taking pictures. For a lot of us, this is home. It’s neighborhoods, churches, culture, history, struggle, and people trying to hold on in a city that keeps changing around them. That’s why President Trump’s proposed “Triumphal Arch” is already getting people talking. The design has been approved […]

Kyle Bibby, cofounder of the Black Veterans Project, spoke with NewsOne about the various historical struggles facing Black veterans. 

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 […]