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Trump is urged by Congress to fight "White nationalism, White supremacy, and neo-Nazism..." Photo: Gage Skidmore--FlickrThe increase of NFL protests against police brutality seems to have sparked another…
Richard Hatcher's 1967 victory was resisted--GOP have been trying to black African American progress for decades. This is what Mayor Sylvester Turner of Houston, TX, said of the…
Cover of Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" The great Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in “The House of the Dead,” 1862, wrote: "The degree of civilization in a…
John C. Calhoun. History.com Don’t allow anyone to tell you differently. Symbols matter. Whether these symbols are flags, icons or names on buildings, symbols are shorthand and they…
President Obama's final speech President Barack Obama in his farewell address on January 10, 2017 said, “That faith that I placed all those years ago, not far from…
Marc Morial Keeping the Pressure for Common Sense Gun Reform The House Democrats' Letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan captures the current mood: “The question before us is,…
All eyes on attorney General Loretta Lynch “Because a body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody.”--Thomas Paine, Rights of Man,…
Five years ago, on World AIDS Say U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the 'three zeros' -…
Timothy Foster During the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The act guaranteed all citizens, particularly African Americans, equal treatment and access to public…
Feel the Movement -- feel the power While it is obvious to many of us that all lives matter, it is not so obvious that in our great…
