Manchin and Sinema Are the “White Moderates” That MLK Warned U.S. About
Victor Ray, a professor at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, reminds us that Dr. King warned about the...
Category : Civil Rights
Jitu Brown: Schools Can Fight the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Civil rights leader Jitu Brown wrote in an opinion article for The Chicago Tribune about the importance of using the schools to combat the school-to-prison...
CORRECTION! Louisiana: Homer Plessy Pardoned After 130 Years
Steve Luxenberg, an editor at The Washington Post and the author of a 2019 book on racial separation and the Plessy case, Separate: The Story...
Louisiana: Homer Plessy Pardoned After 130 Years
At the end of the 19th century, Homer Plessy was arrested for trying to ride in an all-white train car in New Orleans, thus ignoring...
Civil Rights Groups, Unions Form Coalition to Urge Federal Funding for Community Schools
If you don’t know the work of Jitu Brown, this is a good time to inform yourself. Jitu Brown has worked for many years as...
Marty Levine: Does the Arc of the Moral Universe Really Bend Toward Justice?
Marty Levine recalls the famous saying by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice. He read a...
Nancy MacLean: “School Choice” Was Created to Protect Segregation
Duke historian Nancy MacLean, author of the superb Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, wrote recently in...
Biden Administration Will Take Action Against States That Ban Mask Mandates
President Biden announced that the U.S. Department of Education will take legal action against the eight states that do not permit school districts to require...
Bob Moses: A Tribute to a Brilliant Civil Rights Activist and Educator, and His Message to Us
Bob Moses died on July 25 at the age of 86. He was noted for his intellect and courage. He was a leader of SNCC...
Today: The Anniversary of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, tweeted that today is the anniversary of the certification of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution....