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Civil Rights & Social Justice

Opinion

For Black people, milk has always been bound up with power, race, whose bodies are valued, and whose children are expected to thrive.

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When Claudette Colvin left this world on January 13th, with her went a library, a recipe box, and a curriculum we still don't understand how to follow.

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Dr. King’s dream was not an invitation to complacency; it was a call to arms of the spirit. A call to organize, to resist, to transform.

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Few ever grapple with the true crux of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work and the clarion call he and others had for jobs and justice.

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What Trump and so many of his supporters and conservatives refuse to accept is that Black people can’t be racist, nor can “reverse discrimination” exist in America.

Opinion

In this op-ed, Stephen A. Crockett Jr. writes that ICE has become a roaming tribunal that decides who gets to stay and who disappears.

In the first episode of 'The Le[e]gal Brief,' civil rights attorney Lee Merritt gives an overview of officer-involved shootings and the laws surrounding them. 

Opinion

Keith Porter Jr. was killed by an off-duty ICE agenton New Year’s Eve at his apartment complex in the Los Angeles area. 

Renee Nicole Good wasn’t a rioter, nor a terrorist, and she didn’t run anyone over. She was a mother of three, a poet, and didn’t deserve to die.

As the holiday quickly approaches, tap in to some ways that you can make a difference, whether big or small, to honor a legend's dream.

Opinion

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis during an apparent protest against the ICE crackdown.

Memphis authorities issued an arrest warrant for Derrick McDonald, who exposed the conditions of the 201 Poplar jail with his cellphone.