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Bree Newsome Speaks For The First Time After Courageous Act of Civil Disobedience
Bree Newsome, in a courageous act of civil disobedience, scaled a metal pole using a climbing harness, to remove the flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol. Her long dread locks danced in the wind as she descended to the ground while quoting scripture. Read More
'Stories That Shaped Nation' recalls struggle
Activists and dignitaries on Friday celebrated the third and final year of a national awareness campaign to keep alive the memory of the civil rights era and to draw attention to how much remains to be done in the realm of race relations. Read More
Monticello Summit offers somber view of slavery legacy
On an early autumn day, approximately 1,600 people ascended to the heights of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello for a summit on race, memory and slavery. They assembled to hear a gospel choir kick off the proceedings of “Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America.” Read More
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The Civil-Rights Movement’s generation gap
Activist Bree Newsome on bridging the divided perspectives of the young and old. Read More
King's activism was built for future generations
It’s most important to recognize that King’s mission of peace and justice was actively undermined by the FBI and others during his lifetime. Read More
Go ahead, topple the monuments to the Confederacy. All of them.
Nearly 250 years later, the nation born from that revolution is embroiled in controversy over the toppling of a different set of statues. More than 700 monuments honoring the Confederacy are scattered across the nation. Read More
Confederate monuments symbolize slavery. Period
The debate about Confederate monuments is really about justifying systemic racism. Read More
Nonviolence isn't just a tactic, it's a goal
Like the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the Reconstruction era, we’re seeing a “peak moment” in racist backlash to the first black president. Read More
We don’t need a TV show about the Confederacy winning. In many ways, it did.
Fade in. The scene is South Carolina in 2015. Thousands of mourners fill the street to watch as a horse-drawn caisson is paraded to the Statehouse in Columbia. The scene I just described isn’t a movie scene at all, but events that took place on June 24, 2015. Read More
When oppression is the status quo, disruption is a moral duty
“When rights are consistently denied, a cause should be pressed in the courts and in negotiations among local leaders, and not in the streets.” —Alabama clergymen’s letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. April 12, 1963. Read More
A year after Charleston, we still need to cure what ails America
It seems we barely have time to grieve and process one tragedy before we are struck by another. Each day brought a new headline, a new hashtag, a new violence, a new trauma. Read More