Civil Rights & Social Justice

ICE agents showed up to the university-owned apartment where Ellie Aghayeva lives and said they were NYPD officers looking for a missing child.

Nolan Williams Jr. Celebrates Black Heritage with Stirring Musical Tribute

Rev. Jesse Jackson has spent the last six decades advocating for equal rights and economic justice for low-income Black communities. 

Black History Month transformed America by restoring hidden histories, shaping education, and empowering Black communities.

The question sitting under everything right now is: Does NABJ actually understand how to operate under authoritarian pressure?

Black History Month marks 100 years, but the fight to protect Black history is far from over amid censorship and erasure.

Pioneering Black leaders transformed society through education, activism, and resilience, laying a foundation for progress.

Besides Don Lemon, federal agents arrested Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort — who went live on Facebook — and Jamael Lydell Lundy.

This moment cannot be separated from a broader political climate in which Black people who dare to use their voices are increasingly targeted, censored, and criminalized for telling the truth.

Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, two independent Black journalists, were arrested for covering an anti-ICE protest in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Alex Pretti was gunned down by ICE agents while trying to protect a woman an agent had pushed to the ground and started pepper-spraying.

Revolutionary freedom fighter Angela Davis has had plenty to say -- and write -- about Black feminism and prison abolitionism.