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This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...
I implore those exercising their right to peaceful assembly to indeed follow the lead of one king: Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s a global phenomenon: protest movements almost always seem to generate unintended consequences and often lack leadership ...
Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Elder Matthew S. Holland speak at pastor emeritus service at the Third Baptist Church in San ...
As you make your summer travel plans, these museums and exhibits dedicated to Black history and culture should be on your ...
Today we remember the massive protest movements — the civil rights marches, the sit-ins, the student protests against the Vietnam War — but we pay less attention to the tireless organizing ...
Millions of us took to the streets last Saturday to participate in more than 2,000 local protests under the unified banner of ...
Standing beside leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ... (Congress of Racial Equality) meetings and participating in sit-ins for civil rights. Most notably, she was a Freedom Rider.
The Third Baptist Church in San Francisco granted pastor emeritus status to the Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown, a friend of President ...
Over the course of her first semester at Spelman College, Georgianne Thomas went from sheltered freshman to foot soldier on ...