"Words that make actions speak louder."
As primaries are held in cities that have some of the worst racial disparities in the country, is the key issue that Bernie Sanders is promising more than he can deliver, or is it that we as voters are not demanding enough?
Talk radio host Rick Smith took a “People’s Tour” of the South this summer to revisit some of the sites where the fights for racial equality and economic justice intersected.
The people who will stand on the Republican presidential nomination debate stage in Ohio are among those who are leading the wrecking crew trying to demolish a signature civil rights achievement.
A new generation of activists have sharpened the view of the threshold candidates must cross to earn the vote of African Americans, and once again Republican candidates are showing themselves incapable of rising to the challenge.
If there ever were an impossible dream, marriage equality was it just a few short years ago. While this ruling does not put to rest the struggle for LGBT equality, it does teach us the value of a persistent pursuit of justice.
The impetus has been to deny or evade the connection between the Charleston, S.C. church shooting and America’s continuing legacy of racism and violence. And that isn’t just occurring among those on the right.
Fifty years of history taught us that a voting rights law, however buttressed against the damage done by conservatives in courts and legislatures, is not enough.
An amendment would complete the work started by the Voting Rights Act almost 50 years ago, and undo the damage done five years ago by the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” ruling.
There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and Saturday’s Moral March on Raleigh was designed to launch the next phase of a nationwide push-back against tea-party Republicans.
The Rev. William Barber II explains why he is calling people around the country to join a Feb. 8 “moral march” on Raleigh, N.C.: “In order to change America, you have to change the South.”