Above: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street after a demonstration in Ferguson on August 17.
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People protested. People marched. A good cop who blew the whistle ended up thrown in a mental hospital. Mayor Bloomberg refused to back down. Civil liberties and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit. The stop-and-frisk numbers started falling, finally, while the lawsuit moved forward. The judge then ruled the program unconstitutional. The next mayoral campaign turned on one candidate’s vocal rejection of stop-and-frisk. The good guys won. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that activism doesn’t matter.
Americans are so accustomed to speaking about civil rights as an historical era
General view of the Island of Gorée, Senegal, which was from the 15th to the 19th century, the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson on Thursday issued a video apology to the family of Michael Brown…
First shipment of the ramped-up U.S. military response to Ebola arriving in Liberia. (Credit: US Army Africa/CC-BY-2.0)
Recent developments in Latin America continue that region’s remarkable surge toward democracy and socialism…
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The departure of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder deprives the Obama administration of a powerful voice on civil rights at a time when riots in Ferguson, Missouri, have thrust the issue into the spotlight.
he U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests.
The chatter about President Barack Obama’s legacy has already begun, and Michelle Obama is leading the charge…
Bill Toledo, Peter MacDonald and George James Sr.—members of the Navajo Code Talkers
In the Sixties and even for a short time afterward, Blackness was conceived and engaged as a very serious and sacred thing.
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