Civil Rights & Social Justice - Page 5

Once again, our right to fair representation and exercise of political power hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court considers the future of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. 

Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and social justice activist and organizer, was arrested along with two others for Sunday's protest.

According to an ICE memo obtained by the Associated Press, federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant.

Law enforcement leaders say ICE has violated the civil rights of U.S. citizens, citing incidents in which they have pulled guns on off-duty police officers of color, demanding proof of citizenship.

It’s a question that immediately raises a deeper historical one. Not just whether white participation ever existed, but what it actually meant, and what people imagine it would mean now.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NewsOne honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on what would have been the civil rights icon's 96th birthday this year.