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Atlanta is searching for a solution to widespread protests in the city. Recently, Mayor Kasim Reed met with protest leaders in an attempt to open
This past week, another chapter was written on Black pain and outrage. The murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile now join a long and
“This plan [to disenfranchise felons] will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no
Culminating a 50-year fight 62 years after the US Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling called for an end to school segregation, U.S.
A stalwart soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, the Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles has died at his Memphis, Tennessee, home, he was 82. Kyles‘s was
The name of Judge Horace Ward is one of the most respected in the nation when it comes to jurisprudence and civil rights. It has
President Barack Obama attended a town hall meeting at the Royal Horticulture Halls in central London on Saturday. While there, he answered questions about LGBTQ
The city of Atlanta has lost another noted figure in the history of Black Atlanta politics and civil rights. Former Georgia state senator and local
Black Lives Matter activists in Chicago were invited to a meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office later this month. The meeting was
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is America’s most important holiday. It is the only holiday in which America is forced to honestly assess its racial
Ammon Bundy believes that his band of terrorists are similar to Rosa Park. During a series of random tweets, Ammon Bundy attempted to justify his
A highly revered leader in the Civil Rights Movement has died in Atlanta, according to family members. Ozell Sutton who worked directly with Dr. Martin
The Chicago Police Department is now officially under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The move comes in the wake of the fatal shooting of
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Inc. on Friday, Dec. 4 announced Derreck Kayongo as its new CEO, effective immediately during a morning press
It’s been a long journey for Donald Gates, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years. Gates was accused of the 1982 murder and rape of
Civil rights leader and former Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks will have to serve time in prison. According to reports by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Brooks
Former Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, 70, has been a stalwart warrior on the battlefield for civil rights since the early 1960s. He was a
J. Wyndal Gordon, “the warrior lawyer” trial attorney, fights for the rights of those in his community. He is fed up with blatant racism. What
Civil rights legend Julian Bond dies at 75. The first president (1971-79) of Southern Poverty Law Center since its founding, Bond was also a co-founder and communications
