Civil Rights

Indiana’s governor Mike Pence and state legislators did the right thing by amending the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The bill, which as presented to…

The school choice battle rages on — public school proponents believe their way of implementing education is the best way, while proponents of charter schools…

Reverend Samuel Mosteller, longtime president of the Georgia Southern Christian Leadership Conference (which was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) said that Black families…

Last year Pharrell Williams, in an interview with Oprah, declared that he was a proud member of the “New Black.” In his contrived version of…

A Ku Klux Klan leader tells AL.com that the hate group distributed about 4,000 fliers across Selma and Montgomery over two weeks in an effort…

Fifty years ago, several hundred peaceful protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to underscore the need for Black voting…

A day after a Justice Department investigation found fault in Ferguson, Mo. officers for their racially biased policing, officials are confirming that the officer who shot…

Days before the nation acknowledges the 50 years that have passed since peaceful civil rights demonstrators were brutality beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a new…

In a wide-ranging exit interview with Politico, outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder opened up about race and the Republican Party and called for an overhaul…

Malcolm X, one of the most important figures of the second half of the 21st century, brought a different perspective to Black America and the…

  WHAT: Historic Summit of Iconic and Emerging Civil Rights Leaders   WHEN: Sunday, February 15, 2015 – 6:00pm ET   WHERE: Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2174 M.L. King, Jr. Drive, SW, Atlanta, GA 30310   WHY: To establish a new, modern and relevant national organization to address burgeoning civil and human rights challenges facing […]

Bus Pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama Sunday, March 8, 2015 Leaving Atlanta 6:00 a.m. Return 9:00 p.m. Retrace the steps of the historic march from Brown Chapel AME Church to Edmund Pettus Bridge   WHY: To Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March To preserve and make permanent the Voting Rights Act of […]