Civil Rights & Social Justice

Racist and antisemitic social media posts written by now-former Springfield Police Department Officer Aaron Paul Nichols were exposed by anti-fascist group Anonymous Comrades Collective (ACC) forcing Nichols to resign before he could be investigated.

An annual Confederate Memorial Day event managed to get approved at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia by park officials that claim the gathering is a "small and respectful" yearly tradition to honor Confederate Civil War leaders Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee.

As HuffPost reported, on Tuesday, Cotton stood his long-neck-head-a** up during a Senate hearing to use Jackson's common AF surname to draw the stupidest parallel imaginable in insinuating that she's a Nazi sympathizer based on her record as a public defender.

The Debt Collective demanded Biden "pick up the pen" and wipe out all student loan debt in an action Monday.  

Chris Smalls, the fired Amazon worker who is leading union efforts, is currently on the winning side of a union battle most thought couldn't be won, but he and his group of former and current Staten Island, New York, warehouse workers still have a road ahead of them before they can claim success.

The Tennessee legislature passed House Bill 2670, which would “prohibit a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees.”

Anthony Gray is suing the city of Radcliff, Kentucky after its police officers allegedly ran over his lower leg with a patrol car last September at the Gold Vault Inn.

“It is even very clear that our policy at home is to try to solve social problems through military means just as we have done abroad." - Coretta Scott King

While it is expected that the MORE Act will not pass the Senate, it is another example of why expanding the majority is essential for Democrats looking to move important legislation forward.  

GOP legislators overwhelmingly voted against the federal courthouse in Tallahassee after Judge Joseph Hatchett, the first Black judge since reconstruction to win a contested statewide race in Florida, defending his seat on the Florida Supreme Court.

Emanuel Fair lost more than eight years of his life—which he spent in lockup without a single conviction. Fair is now suing everyone involved with his imprisonment. 

The longevity of Marvin Gaye's socially conscious lyrics prove that pain, suffering, poverty and racial unrest are as American as apple pie.