Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. was a civil rights leader whose organizing in Selma ultimately led to the introduction of the Voting Rights Act.
Trump has paired economic attacks with a determined effort to control how Americans think about race, history, and identity.
Jesse Jackson did not just run for president in 1984 and 1988; he rewired the political imagination of this country.
Jackson’s rebuke of the Reagan administration offers a clear framework for challenging political extremism and economic exploitation today.
With this administration, anything is possible. Black History Month could be on the chopping block, and Juneteenth may be, too
The brochures described Byron De La Beckwith, the Klan member who killed Evers, as racist, something the Trump administration objects to.
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.
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.
Some people are misguided and quick to throw shade at our Black elders while standing on the very foundations they built.
The “African vs. African American” divide is rooted in centuries of trauma, colonization, and deliberate miseducation.
What’s taking shape across the U.S. is the rebirth of a new civil rights movement led by a young hip-hop generation.