How Portland’s Racist History Informs Today’s Protests
The arrival of federal agents in Portland three weeks ago to crack down on racial justice protests fueled tensions there, and helped push the city to the forefront of coverage…
Some educators of color resist push for police-free schools
School districts nationwide are working to remove police officers from campuses, but some Black and Indigenous educational leaders are resisting the push prompted by the national reckoning over racial injustice…
What Is “Sex-Plus” Discrimination And Why Are These Employment Claims On The Rise?
“Sex-plus” discrimination claims expand Title VII’s protection to subgroups of employees who suffer discrimination based on multiple characteristics. Although these claims have typically been harder to prove than those based…
Since international law forbids the employment of prisoners of war in war work, German prisoners at Camp Carson are relieving the manpower shortage in the quartermaster laundry.
This type of work is classified as "not directly connected with the war effort," and volunteers are paid 80 cents per day. Here, a group of the volunteer workers sing as they march to the camp laundry. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
‘Are We Not American Soldiers?’ When the U.S. Military Treated German POWs Better Than Black Troops
For Corporal Rupert Trimmingham, it came as no surprise that he’d have to eat inside the lunchroom’s kitchen, invisible to the diners enjoying table service. This was 1944, and the…
‘He Was Like a Pit Bull’: Bob Moses on John Lewis’ Fighting Spirit
In the early 1960s, SNCC [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] had decided it would just do voter registration in Mississippi. I had gone down to work on that program, and…
How Photographer Gordon Parks Examined the Racism Embedded in the Criminal Justice System
In the fight for Black liberation, African-American photographer, filmmaker, author and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) transformed storytelling into activism. “Finally, after a long search to find weapons to fight off the oppression…
Years Before Rosa Parks, Sarah Keys Refused to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus. Now She’s Being Honored in the City Where She Was Arrested
t a time when monument removals have sparked national debates on how to remember the past in the present, residents of one Southern city are facing an uncomfortable episode in…
Fulfilling the Promise of Decolonization
In much of the world, talk of colonialism conjures up images of a rapidly fading past. But the process of decolonization that marked so much of world history in the…
Watchdog Slams Black Lives Matter UK for Claiming British Politics ‘Gagged of the Right to Critique Zionism’
A top British Jewish group slammed the UK branch of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization on Sunday after it tweeted a virulently anti-Israel message. “As Israel moves forward with…
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 30: Members of the joint services military honor guard carry the casket of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) into the Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 30, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Former president Barack Obama will give the eulogy for the late Democratic congressman and former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will also be in attendance. Rep. Lewis was a civil rights pioneer, contemporary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and helped to organize and address the historic March on Washington in August 1963. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Obama calls for voter protections in fiery John Lewis eulogy
Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton gave speeches on Thursday at the funeral for Rep. John Lewis,the Democratic congressman from Georgia and civil rights icon who died…
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