Civil Rights & Social Justice

Many of those who were once young organizers are now of advanced age, some spending substantial portions of their lives as political prisoners.  

Tutu’s ideas about humanness, harmony and reconciliation have been enormously influential, not merely in South Africa, but throughout the world.

James Whitfield—the man who was the first Black principal at Colleyville Heritage High School in Texas, is running for the State Board of Education after being forced to resign over critical race theory allegations that he promoted “conspiracy theory of systemic racism."

Potter's conviction for killing Daunte Wright, 20, came after four days of jury deliberation.

A Texas grand jury has decided against criminally charging a cop who killed Damian Daniels, a Black military veteran in mental distress, despite the availability of other, non-lethal methods that could have de-escalated what became a fatal encounter.

McDonald's is set to pay $33.5 million to Herb Washington, a Black owner of multiple Mickey D's franchises, to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of systemically giving white owners more opportunity to buy restaurants in affluent neighborhoods.

Washington University in St. Louis is the latest college to experience racism on its campus, this time in the form of vandalism on a prominent mural depicting historic Black icons that was defaced with symbols of white supremacy.

Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Jim Olsen has filed House Bill 2988, which would prohibit teaching "that one race is the unique oppressor" or "another race is the unique victim in the institution of slavery.”

The president's comments Friday reflect a significant turn from early remarks such as telling people they will have to out-organize voter suppression yet again.  

Former police officer Kim Potter testified in her own defense and appeared to cry when discussing her killing of Daunte Wright. However, her dry eyes suggested she was simply shedding "white tears" to angle for an acquittal.

An autopsy performed on Glenn Foster Jr., who was found dead in an Alabama jail earlier this month, suggests that the former professional football player may have been strangled or suffered some other trauma to his neck before he died, Ben Crump and his legal team said.

The son of a suspected white supremacist Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet in Louisiana who starred in a home video showing the family repeatedly using the N-word has been revealed to be anti-mask amid reports his disgraced mother has stepped away from the bench -- but not resigned.