Civil Rights & Social Justice
Karson Hyder was fired from the Shelby Police Department over the weekend after video footage taken from a nearby doorbell camera captured his violent arrest of 34-year-old Cherrie Moore.
Black youth are being placed at the center of a civil rights fight, and their bodies, choices, futures, and labor are being asked to carry the moral weight of a nation’s failure.
Memorial Day honors military sacrifice, Black history, and racial justice. Sybil Wilkes' segment explores these themes through personal stories.
Kyle Bibby, cofounder of the Black Veterans Project, spoke with NewsOne about the various historical struggles facing Black veterans.
While speaking at an American Law Institute conference, Brown said that the Voting Rights Act ruling only hurts trust in the Supreme Court.
(Black PR Wire) The National Organization of Blacks In Government, Inc. (BIG) joins civil rights organizations and Supreme Court Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson in denouncing the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais as weakening protections of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, Black and other minority communities across the […]
Black community leaders fight voting rights threats, entrepreneurs revitalize neighborhoods, and Black music icons honored in cultural legacy.
Activist Matthew Pridgen confronts racial injustice rooted in the white Christian community, calling for truth and action to address systemic oppression.
The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case regarding “geofence warrants,” which allow the government to access your data without telling you.
Rev. Stephen Green of Greater Allen AME Cathedral discusses faith-based organizing, the liberating gospel, and the Black church's 200+ year legacy of resistance in Queens, NY.
Attacking civil rights groups like SPLC follows a pattern and practice of the administration’s revisionist terror and political prosecutions. We can’t afford to look away.
From courtrooms to outer space, from concert halls to the halls of Congress, these extraordinary black women did not just break barriers they dismantled them, rebuilt what came after, and made the impossible inevitable for those who followed. They walked into rooms that were never designed with them in mind and left behind blueprints for […]